The article published in The Guardian of 12th July 2007, titled “Too Big for the Planet?” is chosen for analysis in this essay. The Optimum Population Trust, a think tank “dedicated to reducing the population growth and its effects on the world” recommend that families should have no more than two children because any more…
Category: Media Studies
Article Summary and Analysis: News media’s credibility problem goes beyond charges of political bias by Alexandra Marks
Article title: ‘News media’s credibility problem goes beyond charges of political bias’ By Alexandra Marks, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor / June 27, 1996 Summary: The author of the article contends that the instances of biased reporting in the American news media are not due to personal biases and prejudices of the reporters. The common perception…
Sick Around the World by Frontline
The documentary film Sick Around The World deals with the topic of healthcare systems across the world. In the film, five capitalist democratic countries are chosen for analysis. The rest of this essay will briefly describe these, scrutinize their pros and cons and identify the best among the lot. The essay finally attempts to find…
Film Review: The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
The Pursuit of Happyness, starring Will Smith and ably supported by Jadie Smith & Thandie Newton is an average movie overall. The rest of this essay will briefly outline the areas where the movie fails and areas where it succeeds. In doing so, I hope to convince the reader of the veracity of the following…
A critique of the film Lost and Delirious from sexual minorities’ perspective
Bringing forth the intensity of her French-language movies but still maintaining aspects of conventional English movies, Director Lea Pool’s maiden English language venture represents a sound, if somewhat cloyingly romantic, over-earnest film. While the film could be criticized for being overwrought with growth, discovery, adolescent love and passion in the confines of a girls’ residential…
A study of how beer advertisements refer to or signify something other than the actual physical liquid
Advertisements are a true reflection of the society we live in. A methodical study of advertisements can lead to an understanding of attitudes, beliefs and priorities of the citizens. This essay will confine itself to a few salient beer commercials that were run in the television screens of American homes over the course of last…
Pablo Picasso and Cubism
The evolution of Pablo Picasso’s artistic styles and forms over the course of his long and fulfilling career provides us with interesting insights into the psyche of the man himself. In other words, Picasso had written his autobiography, not through the medium of words, but rather manifested through his paintings’ sense of the aesthetic. Along…
Are we living in a period of ‘the cult of the personality’? An analysis in relation to docusoaps and reality TV
One of the markers of the 21st century popular culture is the apparent dilution in its quality and content. The medium with the widest reach, Television, is not only a source of entertainment but also employed by the powers that be to manipulate and deceive the gullible viewer in order to propagate its own political…
Problems in ethics codes of TV, Radio and Newspapers
The common framework of journalistic ethics that is being adopted by radio, television and newspaper associations is a fair and balanced one. Having said so, adhering to such guidelines are not without challenges. The rest of this essay will try to demonstrate why these ethical guidelines are difficult to implement in a media atmosphere dominated…
Integrated Marketing Strategy for Paramount Studio’s Latest Movie Release
Integrated Marketing Strategies are also described as “loyalty” or “relevance” marketing, or as “targeted direct marketing”. This is a systematic method of getting access to the presently available potential customers for Paramount Studios. It relies upon building, maintaining, and sensitively using a customer-focused database. Such a database allows the organization to change seamlessly from a…