How are family problems solved?

PART ONE: INITIAL DISCUSSION POST “Comparing/Contrasting 1950s and 1960s Mediated America” (due by 11:59 pm Monday, June 8th) (target 250 words)Compare/contrast two episodes of television that we’ve explored so far. You choose the episodes for your analysis. One episode representing the 1950s and the second episode representing either the early ’60s (’60s One) or the late ’60s (’60s Two). Again, your choice.So, essentially, you can choose to compare/contrast EITHER mediated (or televised) America between 1950s and early 1960s (’60s One), OR mediated (or televised) America between 1950s and late 1960s (’60s Two). In your analysis, clearly state which choice you’ve made.With your comparison between the two episodes, you may focus on any of the following:Narrative, including structure, subject matter, sexuality, violence.Genre Conventions.Character types, stereotyping.Representation of Social/Economic Class, Profession.Gender dynamics; home, family, work responsibilities. Conventions, rituals of love, dating and marriage.Family dynamics. Who holds the power in the family? How are family problems solved? What are the rules and what is the punishment if rules are broken?Race; ethnicity. Who is (and isn’t) represented within the world of the television show and what roles are they playing? How well does the television show reflect the diversity of American culture during the decade of that television show?Whichever focus you take, integrate in your analysis how American culture/values are reflected (and therefore either maintained or changed/transformed) within these two episodes. Use clear examples of character actions and/or dialogue spoken to support your analysis. Whether or not a character teaches or learns a lesson/value is confirmed by what they say and (more important) by what they do, as revealed in the episode.You need to use screenings posted for our class. You are free to use either required or recommended screenings from Unit 01 or Unit 02. Also, you do not need to match a specific genre, so you could compare Leave It To Beaver (a family situation comedy representing the late 1950s) with Bonanza (a family western representing ’60s One), if you so choose.Keep your analysis focused, you have a 250 word target (I’m okay if it pushes to 300, no grade penalty, but 250 is the target — take time to edit your work). Don’t spend a lot of time summarizing the story events — focus on the comparative analysis. If you’re using a required screening, assume your peers have viewed it. If you are using a recommended screening, provide only essential narrative details for context. Again, focus on your comparative analysis.You are free to incorporate or build upon an analysis that you’ve explored in your My TV Log journal. Make sure you are using this discussion forum to build upon or deepen that initial analysis.Appropriate Formatting for Episode Titles in Posts: In your post, include the episode titles, series titles and original date the episode aired. I’ve included this information in the episode’s link description. For example if I’m referencing the episode from Leave It To Beaver… my properly formatted reference would be: “In the Leave It To Beaver episode “The Haircut” (aired 25 October 1957), Beaver learns an important lesson about…” (Note that I’ve formatted the television series title in italics and the episode title with “quotation marks”.PART TWO: REFLECTION/COMMENT TO ONE PEER’S POST (due by 11:59 pm Tuesday, June 9th) (target 100 words with an embedded image)Read through all of your peers’ posts/threads. Try to select a peer who hasn’t received a comment and “comment/reflect” upon the peer’s post, based on the prompt: “Based on our group’s analyses, what have I learned about American culture in the 1960s compared with the 1950s as represented on Television?” You should compose this comment in the form of an IMAGE with your justification.Find and share an media image that represents your observation about American culture in the ’60s. It’s your choice for the image (you can find it, create it; you can use an image from one of our shows, or grab an image from media outside our course).