What they want is a scapegoat, and that is just what Rock n roll, Marilyn Manson, American Idol, Survivor, Horror, Science Fiction and Action Adventure movies have done. I would like to go a little bit further and point out that I have notice that blaming the media for the action of others is just a “White thang” that apparently only children and ‘young adults” can use. People are quick to blame violence in our society on television, movies or video games because they are simple believable targets. We have to look beyond this disinformation and attack the real causes for the violence in our society. Violence in television programs, movies, or video games will not make a person kill someone else. People watch violent images all the time, and only a very small percent of them actually commit violent crimes. Research on the subject does not necessarily support the argument, but they do not counteract it either. The research is too often inconclusive and to base our opinions on this matter without concrete evidence is foolish. Violence on television, movies and video games is not the problem. The problem is that we wrongfully blame these media sources for violent crimes, rather than put the blame where it rightfully belongs, and if we can do away with all the disinformation on this topic, if people can stop fooling themselves into thinking that, “by cleansing the media we can also cleanse the society”, we can then start to solve the real issues in our society, but the concerned citizens that cry out for government regulation will not admit that the source for society's ills may be their own. When I was growing up all I knew was television, I watched it from sun up to sun down. I was able to watch whatever I wanted know matter theme of the film, or show, just as long as there was no sex, or frontal nudity. The only negative thing that came from me watching too much television was that when I was younger I thought I had the ability to cancel shows if I did not watch them for awhile. As I got into my teens I still was heavily into television so much so that when I got into trouble I had to go outside and play. Now that I’m an adult my I scheduling everything I do around what shows are coming on….(Thank goodness for recordable technology) Now I’m just not basing my “White Thang” theory on just my experience. There are articles that help me with my theories. Blaming TV, film, and music is not a new thing. Let start with Music.
It all started with the Blues, The Blues was blamed for bad behavior mainly because of its roots. Blues refers to "blue devils", meaning melancholy and sadness Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre created primarily within the African-American communities in the Deep South of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. (David Evans, in Nothing but the blues, pg. 33)
Elvis Presley sped up blues and danced provocatively causing a uproar. On June 5, 1956, on the Milton Berle Show. He performed his song “Hound Dog,” with all the pelvis shaking intensity he could, his fans went wild. Television critics across the country slam the performance for its appalling lack of musicality for its vulgarity and animalism. The Catholic Church takes up the criticism in its weekly organ in a piece headlined “Beware Elvis Presley.” Concerns about juvenile delinquency and the changing moral values. He was criticized for influencing young people to engage in anti-social behavior and sex.(pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/flashpoints/musi/elvis.html)
In the 80’s Heavy Metal became the new form of “devil music” In 1985 the band Judas Priest became the victims of a lawsuit. The mother of a Nevada teenager who killed himself claimed that this music contained subliminal messages that compelled him to commit suicide. The case caused a great deal of controversy, but was eventually dismissed. Prosecutors in the case clamied this contained the message “Do It over and over” The
In the 80’s Heavy Metal became the new form of “devil music” The band Judas Preist on 1985 became the Victims of a lawsuit. The mother of a Nevada teenager who killed himself in 1985 sued Judas Priest, claiming that this contained subliminal messages which compelled him to commit suicide. The case caused a great deal of controversy, but was eventually dismissed.
Prosecutors in the case claimed this contained the message "Do It" over and over. The judge ruled that any underlying messages were not put there intentionally.
The mother of a Nevada teenager who killed himself in 1985 sued Judas Priest, claiming that this contained subliminal messages which compelled him to commit suicide. The case caused a great deal of controversy, but was eventually dismissed.
Prosecutors in the case claimed this contained the message "Do It" over and over. The judge ruled that any underlying messages were not put there intentionally.
The teenager who killed himself did so as part of a suicide pact with his friend. The other boy shot himself in the head, but lived. His testimony was the basis for the lawsuit against the band.
In the 1980's and early 90's, lawsuits were filed against some metal bands. They were accused of purposely encouraging suicide in their lyrics and with subliminal messages. A teen killed himself and another attempted to while listening to a song that Judas Priest covered titled "Better by You, Better than Me."According to an article from Rolling Stone magazine titled "Judas Priest: Defenders of the Faith," the case was dropped for lack of evidence.
Ozzy Osbourne found himself in court on a few occasions for similar accusations. His song "Suicide Solution" was said to glorify suicide. Ozzy insisted that the lyrics and song title was misinterpreted. He said that the word "solution" in the title was in reference to a mixture of alcohol, not the other meaning which is an answer to a problem. He claimed the song was in dedication to the original front man of AC/DC, Bon Scott, who died of alcohol consumption. He was also accused of putting subliminal messages on his albums encouraging suicide. All his cases were dropped.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Blog 14 (here I go again on my own)
I'm done with the sunrise paper, and turned everything in yesterday, so today in the library I'm going to just work on Louie's paper, and finally pick a topic out of my three (Is it only white kids that use the media for the wrong that they do, is it only kids that use the media as an scapegoat and not adults, or does the media show that more white people cause more violence in America than any other race)
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Blog 13 (sunrise)
Jarvis Emery
American Film
HUC 270 Die Reise nach Tilsit
Dr. Joyce Rheuban
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans is a 1927 American film directed by German film director F. W. Murnau. The story was adapted by Carl Mayer
from the short story “Die Reise nach Tilsit” ( In English means “The Trip after Tilsit”)
by Hermann Sudermann.
Sunrise won an Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Production at the first Academy Awards Ceremony in 1929. In 1937 Sunrise's original film was destroyed. A new film was created from a surviving print. In 1989, the film was deemed culturally, historically, significant by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in their National Film Registry. In a 2002
critics poll for the British Film Institute. The movie was named the seventh best film
in the history of motion pictures.
In 2007 the film was chosen #82 on the 10th anniversary update of the American Film Institute's 100 Movies of great films. Sunrise is one of the first films with a soundtrack
of music and sound effects recorded in the then new Fox Movie tone sound on film system. With all that is said about this film, and all the awards it was rightfully so nominated, and won, I want to discuss what was not nominated that should have
been, starting with the Director.
Director F.W. Murnau know for films such as Faust, Phantom, and Nousferatu directed this film.
The director in a movie plays the biggest and one of the most important parts in a film. The director is responsible for overseeing creative aspects of a film. They develop the vision for a film and carry the vision out, deciding how the film should look. They also direct what tone it should have and what an audience should gain from the cinematic experience. directors are responsible for approvin camera angles, lens effects, lighting, and set design. They coordinate the actors movement.
The director works closely with the cast and crew to shape the film and may often take suggestions on pertinent issues. The director also advises on color grading of the final images, adding warmth or frigidity to the composition of the shots to reflect the
emotional subtext of the character or environment. They also participate in the sound mix and musical composition of the film. The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Unique, and artistic production, and Cinematography, which to me is all because of the director. It was his vision, his idea for the whole process. From the first flashback of him playing with his family, and then seeing he was falling on hard times the directors use of light and camera techniques was flawless. The effect when the couple was walking in the street and it was like the were walking right through the cars into the fantasy as if they were walking in a field of flowers into a beautiful sunset coming back to reality to show that people stop short and crashing into each other was all from the director, so for a film to be partially praised those reason and the director not be nominated is a slap in the face. For the way the film is seen, the style, and the overall tone is what get a film nominated, so if you nominate the film for Best Picture, you have to nominate the director as well.
Next is the Husband played by actor George O’Brien. The fact that this man was not recognized the Academy Award committee was an absolute disgrace. I’m not a big
fan of silent films in anyway, and when I hear and read about great actors in the silent film area I’ve always question how can that be when they weren’t speaking, all of it
has to go together, from there movement, reaction, and how the deliver their lines.
After watching the film I was proving wrong. George O’Brien’s acting techniques where amazing.
Starting with the first time we see him. When we see him he is at the dinner table looking rather sad, and miserable, when he hears the whistling of his mistress he slowly looks around to make sure his wife does not see him. When film goes into the flashback of him and his waif with there child he is such a proud, happy, and carefree husband and father.
The we see him having to sell some of his live stock because of the bad choice he made
For his girlfriend. The expression on his face is not over the top depressed like I’ve seen in other silent films, but more of a it’s my own fault for being in this mess. When the film comes back to present day when he sees his girlfriend his face lights up like a little kid on Christmas morning. When the girlfriend suggest he kills his wife he emotions shows that he is in love with his wife and this is just a thing that the two of them have, he then pushes her away from him. I felt the way he was able to jump back and fourth from relaxed in his girlfriend’s embrace to being so upset with her with such timing was amazing. The top scenes that did it for me was when him and his wife went to the church and watch the strangers getting married. When the priest said…” God is giving you in the holy bound of matrimony a trust. She is young and inexperienced. Guide her and love her, keep and protect her from all harm.. Wilt thou love her?” I’m was so glad that by the year this film came out they new how to use close ups. The expression on his
face and the emotion that he showed was priceless. Just by he reaction alone you can
tell that he was probably thinking that those word were said to him and he made the
same promise, and from this day forward that’s actually what he was going to do,
he’s not going to get rid off his wife, child, and farm for his girlfriend, he’s going to
give up his girlfriend for his wife, and braking down in tears in his wife lap showed
that he was sorry for not only having a girlfriend, but for ever contemplating the
thought of killing her. For that entire seen alone should have got him a nomination.
When he is in the solon getting groomed there is a woman who looks exactly like his mistress. When she grabs his had he shows that he is uncomfortable in the most humorous way. The way he approaches the man who is sees flirting with his wife was timeless. As he is strongly gazing at the man he lowly goes into his pocket and pulls
out a blade, slowly he goes toward the man with the knife and quickly jabs it to the
mans lapel the man grabs his throat as if the husband just get it, when in fact he just
cut the flower that the man took from his wife. That made me jump because I was thinking he was actually going to cut him, or at the very least point it and threaten him.
George O’Brien show the character’s playful side when he his chasing down the piggy at the carnival into the elegant party, and then dances for the crowd of people with what is know as the “Peasant dance” Another climax scene for O’Brien was when he actually lost his wife in the very unexpected storm. He was so struck with grief , you could tell from the close up on his face when he calls for her to the extreme longshot when he is walking back into the room without her, the director stays in that shot and shows him fall to his knees onto the bed. The best lighting and camera angle came from when the mistress comes to the door the director goes for another extreme longshot to show the husband in the doorway looking at the mistress all you really see is the shadow of the man looking down at the mistress, and without him moving you can tell not only does he blame her
but he wants to kill her. When they find his wife and he looks as if he is saying “take me instead” was such a moment. With all that I describe on both the talents of F.W. Murnau, and George O’Brien, I wonder how the Academy Awards Committee didn’t see it.
American Film
HUC 270 Die Reise nach Tilsit
Dr. Joyce Rheuban
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans is a 1927 American film directed by German film director F. W. Murnau. The story was adapted by Carl Mayer
from the short story “Die Reise nach Tilsit” ( In English means “The Trip after Tilsit”)
by Hermann Sudermann.
Sunrise won an Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Production at the first Academy Awards Ceremony in 1929. In 1937 Sunrise's original film was destroyed. A new film was created from a surviving print. In 1989, the film was deemed culturally, historically, significant by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in their National Film Registry. In a 2002
critics poll for the British Film Institute. The movie was named the seventh best film
in the history of motion pictures.
In 2007 the film was chosen #82 on the 10th anniversary update of the American Film Institute's 100 Movies of great films. Sunrise is one of the first films with a soundtrack
of music and sound effects recorded in the then new Fox Movie tone sound on film system. With all that is said about this film, and all the awards it was rightfully so nominated, and won, I want to discuss what was not nominated that should have
been, starting with the Director.
Director F.W. Murnau know for films such as Faust, Phantom, and Nousferatu directed this film.
The director in a movie plays the biggest and one of the most important parts in a film. The director is responsible for overseeing creative aspects of a film. They develop the vision for a film and carry the vision out, deciding how the film should look. They also direct what tone it should have and what an audience should gain from the cinematic experience. directors are responsible for approvin camera angles, lens effects, lighting, and set design. They coordinate the actors movement.
The director works closely with the cast and crew to shape the film and may often take suggestions on pertinent issues. The director also advises on color grading of the final images, adding warmth or frigidity to the composition of the shots to reflect the
emotional subtext of the character or environment. They also participate in the sound mix and musical composition of the film. The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Unique, and artistic production, and Cinematography, which to me is all because of the director. It was his vision, his idea for the whole process. From the first flashback of him playing with his family, and then seeing he was falling on hard times the directors use of light and camera techniques was flawless. The effect when the couple was walking in the street and it was like the were walking right through the cars into the fantasy as if they were walking in a field of flowers into a beautiful sunset coming back to reality to show that people stop short and crashing into each other was all from the director, so for a film to be partially praised those reason and the director not be nominated is a slap in the face. For the way the film is seen, the style, and the overall tone is what get a film nominated, so if you nominate the film for Best Picture, you have to nominate the director as well.
Next is the Husband played by actor George O’Brien. The fact that this man was not recognized the Academy Award committee was an absolute disgrace. I’m not a big
fan of silent films in anyway, and when I hear and read about great actors in the silent film area I’ve always question how can that be when they weren’t speaking, all of it
has to go together, from there movement, reaction, and how the deliver their lines.
After watching the film I was proving wrong. George O’Brien’s acting techniques where amazing.
Starting with the first time we see him. When we see him he is at the dinner table looking rather sad, and miserable, when he hears the whistling of his mistress he slowly looks around to make sure his wife does not see him. When film goes into the flashback of him and his waif with there child he is such a proud, happy, and carefree husband and father.
The we see him having to sell some of his live stock because of the bad choice he made
For his girlfriend. The expression on his face is not over the top depressed like I’ve seen in other silent films, but more of a it’s my own fault for being in this mess. When the film comes back to present day when he sees his girlfriend his face lights up like a little kid on Christmas morning. When the girlfriend suggest he kills his wife he emotions shows that he is in love with his wife and this is just a thing that the two of them have, he then pushes her away from him. I felt the way he was able to jump back and fourth from relaxed in his girlfriend’s embrace to being so upset with her with such timing was amazing. The top scenes that did it for me was when him and his wife went to the church and watch the strangers getting married. When the priest said…” God is giving you in the holy bound of matrimony a trust. She is young and inexperienced. Guide her and love her, keep and protect her from all harm.. Wilt thou love her?” I’m was so glad that by the year this film came out they new how to use close ups. The expression on his
face and the emotion that he showed was priceless. Just by he reaction alone you can
tell that he was probably thinking that those word were said to him and he made the
same promise, and from this day forward that’s actually what he was going to do,
he’s not going to get rid off his wife, child, and farm for his girlfriend, he’s going to
give up his girlfriend for his wife, and braking down in tears in his wife lap showed
that he was sorry for not only having a girlfriend, but for ever contemplating the
thought of killing her. For that entire seen alone should have got him a nomination.
When he is in the solon getting groomed there is a woman who looks exactly like his mistress. When she grabs his had he shows that he is uncomfortable in the most humorous way. The way he approaches the man who is sees flirting with his wife was timeless. As he is strongly gazing at the man he lowly goes into his pocket and pulls
out a blade, slowly he goes toward the man with the knife and quickly jabs it to the
mans lapel the man grabs his throat as if the husband just get it, when in fact he just
cut the flower that the man took from his wife. That made me jump because I was thinking he was actually going to cut him, or at the very least point it and threaten him.
George O’Brien show the character’s playful side when he his chasing down the piggy at the carnival into the elegant party, and then dances for the crowd of people with what is know as the “Peasant dance” Another climax scene for O’Brien was when he actually lost his wife in the very unexpected storm. He was so struck with grief , you could tell from the close up on his face when he calls for her to the extreme longshot when he is walking back into the room without her, the director stays in that shot and shows him fall to his knees onto the bed. The best lighting and camera angle came from when the mistress comes to the door the director goes for another extreme longshot to show the husband in the doorway looking at the mistress all you really see is the shadow of the man looking down at the mistress, and without him moving you can tell not only does he blame her
but he wants to kill her. When they find his wife and he looks as if he is saying “take me instead” was such a moment. With all that I describe on both the talents of F.W. Murnau, and George O’Brien, I wonder how the Academy Awards Committee didn’t see it.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Blog#12 (Aww is me)
What problems are you having? What do you need to do between today and the next class....The only problem I'm really running into is what i want to do as far as a paper. I've wrote 3 pages of something already but for some reason I keep wanting to change it. When I was looking up different sources in class today for my current paper I kept coming up with other ideas. Hopefully I will have it down just exactly want i want my paper to say by next class.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Blog 11 (only i could make it so difficult for myself )
I started written my paper on how it seems blaming the media on violence is only limited to a certain category of people(white kids and teens.)
During class I thought about changing it to comparing American media violence to other counties and seeing if they blame TV, video games and music, or is that just American thing. While i was in the library i googled, binged, and facebooked friends i know in the U.K., and Africa. difficult
During class I thought about changing it to comparing American media violence to other counties and seeing if they blame TV, video games and music, or is that just American thing. While i was in the library i googled, binged, and facebooked friends i know in the U.K., and Africa. difficult
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Blog 10 (not really my place)
Hanifah, was my first student. I felt she had a good paper with minor grammar, and punctuation issues, but noting that was severe enough to where she wouldn’t pass. She was rather vivid with her details, but gave little to no proper examples, which I realized after my 15 minutes was that I didn’t mention that to her.
Ariel, was my second student. It seemed like Professor X said “you have 2 hours to write 250 words and then you can go“, and that’s exactly what he or she did. He or she gave 300 words and left after 45 minutes to an hour. It was apparent that he or she did not review their paper at all before they turned it in.
Ariel, was my second student. It seemed like Professor X said “you have 2 hours to write 250 words and then you can go“, and that’s exactly what he or she did. He or she gave 300 words and left after 45 minutes to an hour. It was apparent that he or she did not review their paper at all before they turned it in.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Blog 9
1.Thesis / Thesis Statement (Merrian-Webster Pocket Dictionary): A proposition to be argued for, essay embodying results of original research.
In my own words: I always thought that a Thesis was a twenty plus paper you wrote your fourth year in college to graduate (In other words a big waste of time and pointless if you’re going into a field where you would never have to actually write said type of reports) After taking ENG 99 I learned the definition, but I would not have been so technical in my answer. I just would have said it is a statement that can be debated/argued.
2.Research (Merrian-Webster Pocket Dictionary): Careful or diligent search especially for new knowledge.
In my own words: Finding out information any way you can to prove what you think, or just to know. (I.E. looking up information to written my midterm paper.)
3.Argument (Merrian-Webster Pocket Dictionary): Reasons given to persuade, or dispute with words.
In my own words: An argument is a heated disagreement between two or more people. (I.E. when a debate gets your adrenaline pumped up)
4.Claim (Merrian-Webster Pocket Dictionary): Demand or take as the rightful owner.
In my own words: A claim is when you made an assumption about something, or a person that you thought to be true or just your opinion. (I.E. He took my pen, or this is my coat)
5.Reasons (Merrian-Webster Pocket Dictionary): Explanation or justification for an action or belief.
In my own words: the cause of doing something, or thinking the way you do. (I.E. I work to sleep in a bed)
6.Evidence (Merrian-Webster Pocket Dictionary): Outward sign, proof or testimony.
In my own words: I would just say proof. Prove either with visibility, or statement that cannot be argued with what you assume or know is fact. … (I.E. another word for humans is Homosapians.)
7.MLA Citation Style (http://www.library.cornell.edu/resrch/citmanage/mla): MLA citation style refers to the rules and conventions established by the Modern Language Association for acknowledging sources used in a research paper.
In my own words: Before ENA 99 I never knew there was such a thing as MLA Citation. If I remember correctly it is giving the source of the information. When we read Stepford Wives in ENA 99 we had to write about the book with examples so when we find an example at the end of it we had to write in parenthesis the authors last name and the page number(s)
In my own words: I always thought that a Thesis was a twenty plus paper you wrote your fourth year in college to graduate (In other words a big waste of time and pointless if you’re going into a field where you would never have to actually write said type of reports) After taking ENG 99 I learned the definition, but I would not have been so technical in my answer. I just would have said it is a statement that can be debated/argued.
2.Research (Merrian-Webster Pocket Dictionary): Careful or diligent search especially for new knowledge.
In my own words: Finding out information any way you can to prove what you think, or just to know. (I.E. looking up information to written my midterm paper.)
3.Argument (Merrian-Webster Pocket Dictionary): Reasons given to persuade, or dispute with words.
In my own words: An argument is a heated disagreement between two or more people. (I.E. when a debate gets your adrenaline pumped up)
4.Claim (Merrian-Webster Pocket Dictionary): Demand or take as the rightful owner.
In my own words: A claim is when you made an assumption about something, or a person that you thought to be true or just your opinion. (I.E. He took my pen, or this is my coat)
5.Reasons (Merrian-Webster Pocket Dictionary): Explanation or justification for an action or belief.
In my own words: the cause of doing something, or thinking the way you do. (I.E. I work to sleep in a bed)
6.Evidence (Merrian-Webster Pocket Dictionary): Outward sign, proof or testimony.
In my own words: I would just say proof. Prove either with visibility, or statement that cannot be argued with what you assume or know is fact. … (I.E. another word for humans is Homosapians.)
7.MLA Citation Style (http://www.library.cornell.edu/resrch/citmanage/mla): MLA citation style refers to the rules and conventions established by the Modern Language Association for acknowledging sources used in a research paper.
In my own words: Before ENA 99 I never knew there was such a thing as MLA Citation. If I remember correctly it is giving the source of the information. When we read Stepford Wives in ENA 99 we had to write about the book with examples so when we find an example at the end of it we had to write in parenthesis the authors last name and the page number(s)
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