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CHAPTER 6
3. Country of origin
4. Ethnicity
d. What messages are conveyed with regard to social class? Be
specific. Use analytical tools (such as word choice, plot, struc-
ture, oppositional analysis, production elements) to support your
observations.
What conclusions can you derive from this analysis?
9. In the chapter, it was stated that the science fiction genre often re-
flects the uncertainty posed by threats, or perceived threats, to the
established system. Conduct an ideological analysis of a science
fiction program (comic, video game, film, or television program):
Who (or what) represents a threat to this initial order? Explain.
10. Conduct an ideological analysis of a selection of programming
belonging to a genre. What belief system is operating in this genre?
Use any of the following strategies in your analysis:
a. Worldview
b. Function
c. Formulaic approach
1. Premise
2. Structure
3. Plot
4. Character
d. Point of view
e. Intergenre analysis
f. Production elements
Genre Analysis: Ideological Approach • by Meredith Wurm
Fame, Fashion, Fortune and the “Fortunates”:
Reality Television: Ideological Approach
Introduction
Just when you thought, “Good, that’s done with,” you flip the channel
and what do you see? Another ad for another reality television show.
Reality TV has become the most interesting thing to happen to television
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since the launch of MTV in the 1980s. It began with Real World (MTV),
but since then has emerged (and over overflowed) into celebrity lives,
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