Communication, values, and popular television series—A seventeen‐year assessment

Chesebro, James W.

doi:10.1080/01463379109369799

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“…Rather than celebrating family life, television glorifies the single life for males. For example, Chesebro (1979) states that "television series disproportionately dramatized the life-style of the white single urban professional male who lives alone." By limiting our analysis to domestic comedies, we may miss the main message of television.…”

Section: Background and Rationalementioning

confidence: 98%

“…In most popular fiction, including TV, women generally have been presented as passive-dependent sex objects, romantic figures, or mothers (Cantor, 1987, Ceulemans & Fauconnier, 1979Gallagher, 1981;Gerbner, Gross, Morgan, & Signorielli, 1980). Men, in contrast, are portrayed as adventurous, aggressive, and likely to be single (Chesebro, 1979;Gerbner et al, 1980;Gerbner & Signorielli, 1982;Meehan, 1983). Also, men are more likely to be portrayed as violent and women as the victims of violence (Gerbner & Signorielli, 1979).…”

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Prime‐time fathers: A study in continuity and change

Cantor

1990

Critical Studies in Mass Communication

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This article concentrates on how women, and especially men, act as parents and spouses in domestic comedies. The first section concentrates on the background and rationale for studying the portrayals of fathers and husbands in television's domestic comedies; the second section examines the way gender (with emphasis on males) has been portrayed in these shows from the 1950s through the 1980s. The final section proposes that men are presented differently in women's fiction.

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Section: Background and Rationalementioning

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Prime‐time fathers: A study in continuity and change

Cantor

1990

Critical Studies in Mass Communication

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“…The earliest report by Chesebro (1991) coded what he termed "value categories" in programming from the 1970s and 1980s and found that theology was present in just 6% of the programs -far less frequently than individualism (50%) or authority (24%). The rate doubled in the late 1990s, but still lagged significantly behind individualism (42%) and authority (23%).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Most research on media and religion has been undertaken in the US context (Chesebro, 1991;Clarke, 2005;Gerbner et al, 1984;Hamilton & Rubin, 1992;Hoover, 2006;Skill & Robinson, 1994;Skill, Robinson, Lyons, & Larson, 1994). Israel and the USA provide a constructive case for comparison from a number of perspectives.…”

Section: Religious Tv Broadcasting In the Usa And Israelmentioning

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Religious Practices and Conversations in American and Israeli Prime-Time Television Programming

Cohen

Hetsroni

2018

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This comparative content analysis examines the extent to which religion finds expression in mainstream TV programming. The appearance of religious practices, the level of fulfillment they bring, and the extent to which they accord with religious law along with the tone of conversation about religion were coded in 154 hours of prime-time network programming from the USA and 112 hours of prime-time programming aired by the major TV stations in Israel. The results indicate a very infrequent presence of religion in the programming in the two countries: once in two hours in Israel and once in three hours in the USA, but while in US programming more than three quarters of the religious practices brought fulfillment to their participants and more than 90% of the practices adhered fully or partly to religious rules, in Israeli shows only one quarter of the practices brought fulfillment and just half of them adhered fully or partly to religious rules. Conversation about religion appeared just as infrequently as practices did, but its tone was mainly positive in both countries.

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“…Emmanuel Todd (1985) In addition to the considering the possible connections between the soap opera world and the everyday culture of the audience, we suggest further that each of the three subgenres creates a particular communicative relationship with the viewers. Frye (1957;Chesebro, 1987) The moral economy (Morley and Silverstone, 1990) of the soap opera is connected with the kind of relationship it establishes with its viewers. The more mimetic the subgenre --the less it escapes from the dilemmas of daily life --the more it is socially responsible.…”

Section: The Soap Opera: a Diversity Of Subgenresmentioning

confidence: 99%