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Where Are Those Good Old Fashioned Values? Family And Satire In Family Guy, Reilly Judd Ryan
Where Are Those Good Old Fashioned Values? Family And Satire In Family Guy, Reilly Judd Ryan
Theses and Dissertations
This paper explores the presentation of family in the controversial FOX Network television program Family Guy. Polarizing to audiences, the Griffin family of Family Guy is at once considered sophomoric and offensive to some and smart and satiric to others. Though neither judgment of the show is necessarily mutually exclusive, the intention of this study is to reconcile those disparate viewpoints in order to measure the show's purposefulness. After all, if Family Guy succeeds in its satire, it is full of social purpose, offensiveness notwithstanding. This thesis focuses on arguably the main point of contention in Family Guy: the family. …
Truth Begins In Lies': The Paradoxes Of Western Society In House M.D., Jason A. Hagey
Truth Begins In Lies': The Paradoxes Of Western Society In House M.D., Jason A. Hagey
Theses and Dissertations
The core of House M.D. is its assertion that current Western civilization lives in a perpetual state of dissonance: we desire to have the rawness of emotion but we can only handle this rawness when we combine it with intellect, even if that intellect lies to us. This is the ontological paradox that the televisual text grapples with. Through the use of archetypal analysis and allegorical interpretation, this thesis reveals that dissonance and its relationship to contemporary Western society. Through House M.D. we realize that there are structures to the paradoxes that we live and there are paradoxes in our …