Many people view onscreen relationships and place themselves in the character’s life. Star’s mini-series Power connects with the audience through intense emotion prowess. Every relationship between characters exhibits real life problems that happen in society. Power develops a relationship with viewers. Viewers then create deep interpersonal relationships with on screen fictional characters and prompts social engagement. Audience members then post on discussion boards and social media site expressing emotions and discussing conflicts. Through Power, audiences view each character’s behavior, internalize the behavior, and discuss information amongst the masses. To begin with, Power observes several relationships through the entire season. The …show more content…
The main character, Ghost, goes through several emotional challenges. First, the audience watch Ghost and his best friend Tommy’s relationship go through trust and loyalty issues. Ghost and Tommy have an emotionally intimate relationship. In the book Reading the Bromance: Homosocial Relationships in Film and Television by Project Muse, Ghost and Tommy’s relationship is presented to audiences as a bromance. A bromance depends upon an elegant yet complex play with what popular media culture has consistently posited as the anticipated and desired out-come of intensifying interpersonal intimacy in heterosexual relationships (Muse 2). Emotionally, Ghost feels that Tommy is holding him back financially which puts a strain on their very close and intense relationship. From Tommy’s point of view, Ghost is changing and is trying to destroy their friendship for Angela. The audience can relate to …show more content…
Bartsch explores four studies pertaining to contemplative emotional experiences, emotional engagement with characters, social sharing of emotions, and vicarious release of emotions. The author states, emotions are often assumed to be the heart of media entertainment (Bartsch 267). The producer of Power is very detailed in the scenes to help the audience become more connected to the characters. Trust is one of Powers’ main themes and in every relationship portrayed in the series, trust plays a major role. As the audience witnesses Ghost go back in forth between Angela and Tasha, viewers are filled with overwhelming emotions. Feelings of distrust impacts the audience in a negative connotation. Ghost is committing adultery on camera angers the audience. Programmers release television show that spark our imagination, feelings, which in turn, the viewers release an emotional response. As the series moves forward, the audience observes the intense relationship between Tommy and Ghost. Their relationship reflects what Muse Project referred to as a bromance. The term “bromance” was coined to describe the intimacy that two males share without any sexual involvement with one another. The bromantical relationship between Tommy and Ghost is built trust, and they are business partners who depend on one another for emotional and financial stability. The audience values the importance of their relationship
The Breaking Bad television series has been memorable to viewers due to its diverse plot and stirring scenes. Vince Gillian incorporated Scholes matrices of power into his piece. Rhetoric has played an important roll in Breaking Bad, pathos, ethos, and logos have brought this film to another level. Allowing a sense of emotion, logic and credibility, within each episode. The series has been culturally relatable to viewers and the visually fascinating. Through narrativity the series has offered us intense plot lines and climaxes that are hard for viewers to resist and keep people watching. Through rhetoric analysis you are able to see the significance of Scholes matrices of power in Vince Gillian’s film, Breaking Bad.
Starting at a young age, the main characters lives are intertwined. They form a special bond, which have both positive and negative affects on their relationship. At the time when Jim and Antonia are growing up, a rigid social structure exists in Nebraska. This social difference contributed to the creation and alteration of their friendship; in part, it is responsible for their behavior toward one another.
Younger generations and the more vulnerable in society can be influenced in avoiding peer pressure, but for the individuals filled with wisdom, the shows can reflect based on American modern society. Everybody Loves Raymond and Full House are great shows who faces similar life obstacles a typical person living in the US has today. As a result, most modern family comedy sit-coms are reflecting our society’s generations and the more vulnerable. Based on the success of early family sit coms, American’s adapted to a fast pace lifestyle with the help of modern
Tom and Billy are used to living the upper-class life which includes their parents working almost all the time and the au pair being their closest “relative” at home. This creates a kind of alienated relationship between the parents and the kids. The family communicates every day but they all live separate lives.
Emotions have the ability to stop time and conjure a single tear or a simple grin, but most importantly emotions can give one the drive that can change what seems impossible. Many major movements, political or social, are fueled by emotional motives. These emotions lie within the people of society, and could be exposed by a rudimentary activity, like watching TV shows. Today is known as the golden era of visual media, and TV shows have become more prevalent and popular. Whether TV shows are comedy based, like Black-ish, or drama based, like Luke Cage, they all have the ability to appeal to one’s emotions. Both Black-ish and Luke Cage utilize emotions to propel their representations of racial conflicts in today’s society, but Luke Cage’s coveys
All relationships go through both good and bad times. Some last through the ages, while others quickly fall into nothing. In Terrence McNally’s “Lips Together, Teeth Apart,” the heart of this haunting play is a dramatically incisive portrait of two married couples—the Truman’s and the Haddocks. Uncomfortable with themselves and each other, they are forced to spend a Fourth of July weekend at the Fire Island house that the brother of one of the women left his sister when he died of AIDS. Though the house is beautiful, it is as empty as their lives and marriages have become, a symbol of their failed hopes, their rage, their fears, and of the capricious nature of death. The theme of love and death in relationships is quickly developed, as well as an overwhelming fear of homophobia. The two couples McNally brings to life are both going through rough patches in their marriages. While Chloe and John are fighting through John’s esophagus cancer, Sally and Sam are expecting and fearful that this time it will be another miscarriage. Showing how society has struck fear into the couples about AIDS. While everyone except John is worried about catching “AIDS,” the play begins to unveil troubled marriages as well as superficial values and prejudices.
For centuries, the ideal masculinity has been seen as the provider, the macho man, the cowboy and the emotional rock, but new representations of manliness in the media have been challenging this idea (Watson 2015, p. 270). Within these new depictions, there lies a hierarchy where one form of masculinity is more accepted than the rest (Kluch 2015). Macho masculinity has been seen as being dominant in the hierarchy for generations, however, in recent years, there have been an influx of new representations of masculinity that disrupt traditional hierarchal ideas. The masculinity of the twenty first century includes emotions, sensitivity, discipline, and intelligence. These new aspects of the hierarchy have been introduced by movies such as Brokeback Mountain, 22 Jump Street, The
Popular television show “Supernatural”, due to release its twelfth season this year, presents the audience with an interesting family dynamic; as the show is central around adult brothers Sam and Dean Winchester, who carry out the Winchester family business of hunting supernatural beings, this seems to be inevitable. Much of the abundant interpersonal drama within the show is created as a result of the complicated relationship and angst between the two brothers; the majority of this drama likely results from an interesting power dynamic (with Dean feeling the intrinsic need to protect younger brother Sam), as well as Sam’s occasional desire to separate himself from his older brother and the past relationship both brothers had with their father. This tension is heightened by the constantly life-threatening and complicated situations the two are bombarded with on a daily basis (such as when Dean becomes a demon and Sam struggles with the thought of having to kill him if the cure does not work); however, ultimately both remain fiercely loyal to each other.
In the novel The Moviegoer by Walker Percy, two characters Binx Bolling, and his distant cousin Kate Cutrer’s growing relationship stems from their detachment from reality. Binx and Kate both have equally strange orientations on society. Being distant cousins they are able to grow close throughout the novel, realizing their underlying connection. Their relationship is confusing however they are able to grow close over their ability to realize the inherent falseness in the world. It is only through Binx’s relationship with Kate that his concern and regard draw out for someone else, beside himself. Kate and Binx’s incestuous relationship represents how two seemingly hopeless individuals can be repaired through their union.
molding the minds of young viewers and showing them that the way a certain group of people
Kathy and Tommy’s special connection has been evident since the beginning of the story when Kathy tries to calm down Tommy during one of his tantrums. When they are around 16 years old, Tommy and Ruth start dating and for a brief period of time, Ruth and Tommy break up. Many of Kathy’s peers noticed the connection between Kathy and Tommy and deemed her the “natural successor” of who should date Tommy next. However, Ruth believed that she and Tommy belonged together and asked Kathy to convince Tommy to get back together with her. Tommy and Ruth begin dating again and remain dating until they leave the Cottages. With Kathy’s loyalty to both Ruth and Tommy, Ruth and Tommy’s relationship constantly complicates the dynamics of their friendship. However, Ruth saw the special relationship between Kathy and Tommy all along and did not admit it until she and Tommy are donors and Kathy is a carer. Ruth asks for Kathy’s forgiveness and admits that keeping Tommy and her apart was the worst thing she did. Ruth then says, “ I’m not even asking you to forgive...
As a society, there is persuasion in everything that is done. Power is often used in this persuasion, business deals, house signings, casual conversation, power and persuasion is used in all situations in order to further one from another. In order to demonstrate this, one can look towards popular media. Forms of popular media can include, film, television, comic strips, or even magazines, all of these forms of media have power and persuasion built into them. This can easily be seen on a cover of Entertainment Weekly, from May twenty-fifth, 2012. This cover features a seductive picture of Channing Tatum, and has text talking about the new movie (at the time) Magic Mike. Through the definition of power and persuasion in a nonverbal sense, it
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Aristotle argued that effective speakers understand the emotions of their audiences and that they can use those emotions to persuade them (40). Nostalgia is a complicated emotion, defined as “a sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past” (“Nostalgia | Definition”). Due to the fact that there is no official research done on the nostalgic marketing techniques employed by Netflix, one must infer their intentions based on the trends identified by sources focusing on behavioral phenomena and marketing. Psychology Today said that “Marketers rely on nostalgia to sell us everything”, and it’s no new trick (Burton). An independent study found that 8.5% of 401 shows introduced on all platforms between 2015 and 2017 used nostalgia as a selling point or storytelling tool (Bojalad). The nostalgia emulated by Stranger Things may attach to the audiences hope for or anticipation of a positive future event (Burton). This could be a longing for a return to simpler times, as contrasted against the norms of today in which the media portrays youth as being constantly connected to technology, forsaking the charms of the great outdoors and the freedom in staying out until sunset cued us to return home for dinner. Stranger Things is littered with intentional, and perhaps subliminal, connections to past pop culture references. The group of tenacious children reminds of the adventurous boys in Stand by Me. The characters riding bicycles at night is reminiscent of E.T. Eleven, the telekinetic heroine, reminds of Drew Barrymore in Firestarter. The mother who challenges and communicates with the supernatural reminds of JoBeth Williams in Poltergeist (Stewart). The nostalgic connections are plentiful, and each has the potential to catch the attention and pull the heartstrings of the