How Does the Media Represent "beauty and Love" in the Media?
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How does the Media represent "beauty and love" in the media?
* The notebook- utterly romantic and hopelessly fateful.
* Titanic- realistic although tragic.
The media is often a public commerce in which has the power to influence society in almost any matter whatsoever. Movies and magazines have now become a commodity, with false pretences in which undermine our ability to clear thinking, and knowledgeable understanding. Movies provide us with the "unrealistic and hopeful" belief that one day, we like the mythical characters will meet that special one person, who is in fact, "the other half" of ourselves.
Us as a society have become highly reliant on the compulsive stories in which the media provides us, either through film, advertising and or radio. This is because the ancestry in which we came from, and the values within the terms have differed abundantly to the now modern society. So how is it that us, as a society have become do robotically cliché, within the various clique? How is it that a mere 30 seconds of film can influence such a stereotyped society?
It is because the media has the ability to dramatize situations in order to create a fundamental process in which falsifies the "reality" beyond the viewers contemplation.
Love, a deadly yet bittersweet composition in which Your perfect partner is cosmically predestined.
These myths, Galician contends, can lead to unrealistic expectations that
can make us dissatisfied with the reality of our lives. The purpose of the book, then, is to
help students "identify, illustrate, deconstruct, evaluate, and reframe the mass media's
mythic and stereotypic portrayals of sex, love, and romance" (6).
Chapter Four focuses on the storytelling devices of the mass media that frame
constructions of sex, love, and romance. Here, Galician emphasizes that the mass media
are selling not just products or services, but also particular viewpoints. This leads to
Chapter Five, where she covers the mass media's influence on socialization focusing on
the work of Albert Bandura and George Gerbner.
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