Sentences with phrase «television culture of our times»

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But a single release date provides only a one - time marketing bang, as opposed to the water - cooler chats, live - tweeting and frenzied recap culture of weekly television.

At the same time, conservative pastors and parachurch organizations alike urge fathers not to relinquish their parental authority and to set rules (such as supervising children's television - viewing and monitoring their whereabouts) to counter the morally negative aspects of the secular culture.

Television is taking over the traditional role of teacher and preacher in our culture, while at the same time becoming controlled by a few who limit the points of view.

Part of the reason for the takeover of religious television by conservative, paid - time religious broadcasters has been the changes that have occurred in American religious culture, changes that have reduced the power of those broadcasters who represent the mainline denominations while increasing the power of those representing the conservative denominations and groups.

And, while we have no real reason to believe that the world of television can be completely turned around, at the same time those committed to the task of trying to do so continue to hold up in their communities of faith the ideals of open and free communication and a civility in our culture which we do not yet possess.

As a consequence of the displacement of these other types of religious programs, the growth of paid - time religious programming in the 1960s and 1970s has resulted in a marked movement in religious television away from representating a range of U.S. cultures and traditions toward representing mainly the Protestant evangelical and fundamentalist traditions, particularly the independent broadcast organizations.

However, more women know the ageism of attraction, dating and how our culture relegated women over 50 to the shadows of prime time television and life until the 1980s groundbreaking show «The Golden Girls.»

As a result, the schematic plotline of the novel was eschewed in favor of more sophisticated satirical jabs at both ratings - obsessed television news culture and the scam artist - infested self - help movement of the time (both equally worthy targets today, if not more so).

A solid mix of sports, geek culture and television, Mac and Gu is a Boston based podcast started by Brian Antonelli and Jeffrey McNamara and they have gained a solid following in the time they have been operating.

In one segment, titled Cable Theft Today, Beckwith explains in detail how to steal cable, conceding the omnipresence and even necessity of television in contemporary American culture, while at the same time subverting the corporations and establishments responsible for it.

1) Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1984, pp. 166 — 176 2 Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Routledge, New York, 1992, pp. 52 — 54 3 Philip Nobel, «Sign of the Times», Artforum, January 2003 4 Benjamin H. Bratton, «Mind the Pollocks: (Notes on) Art & Software», August 2009, http://ow.ly/R3fYT 5 Pepe Karmel, Jackson Pollock: Interviews, Articles, and Reviews, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1999, p. 164 6 Matt Saunders, «To Everyone's Chagrin», Texte Zur Kunst, Issue 71, September 2008 7 Jori Finkel, «Sculptor Thomas Houseago's Shape - Shifting World», Los Angeles Times, 2 January 2011 8 David Geers, «Neo-Modern», October, vol.

At that time, I became particularly interested in artists like Nam June Paik, the Video Freex, and the magazine Radical Software — all artists and projects of the 1960s / early 70s that were embracing video and television as new media — considering how their potential for mass communication could change the shape and operation of art and culture.

Narcissism has flourished in Western culture in recent years as witness the long - time success of ridiculously debased reality television and its «stars».

The frenzied, pop - culture jamboree «San Diego Comic Con» in downtown San Diego has literally evolved over the years into a stupendous spectacle of comic books, film, television, video games, products and now virtual reality - but only this time taking you into the action - packed, epic - fantasy world of Azeroth.