The 50's were all about family shows, like Leave it to Beaver. Now, TV has turned to being more revealing and trashy. Like Reality TV for instance. Society was different back then. People kept their business their business and took pride in how they were viewed. Now, most people on TV don't care. They'll do any thing. The difference is now you gat paid to do stupid things on television. The more stupid the better, or higher ratings. Back in the 50's you would have been looked down upon for presenting yourself in such a manner.
Women normally were portrayed as the glamour girl, or the stay at home wife. The man usually was the boss and went to work. Now, there are all types of scenerios. There are pros and cons to every generation.
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I definetly think the 50's fashion was better.
Television has become far more incorporated into people's lives than it ever was in the 1950s. Back then, it was a luxury to have a tv, and tv time was special.
Programming was much more limited. There weren't as many channels, and there weren't as many types of shows - you pretty much had to take what you could get. No ESPN, no movie channels.
A lot of social changes have happened, too. In the '50s, tv was generally "cleaner" and more wholesome - couples on sitcoms didn't even share beds.
In the 1950s Tv was much more reserved, they never showed people sharing the same bed, it was more wholesome family entertainment back then. Think of shows like I love Lucy, the Bob Cummings show, the Honeymooners. Tv never showed blacks as main characters, the first interracial kiss was on Star Trek in the 60s. The first toilet flush was on All in the Family in the 70s. There were a lot of comedy and variety shows, and the audience was anyone and everyone who had a TV or knew someone who did.
This question can be answered in a variety of different ways ranging from the technological changes and advances it has gone through to the question of whether it has any type of affects on the way people perceive it, or if society is manipulated by what they see on television. This report will hopefully uncover and discover television then and now. The first aspect that will be uncovered are the technological advances that television has made over the years. Naturally to see into this, we must look to how television originated. Television broadcasting was first introduced in 1936 when it was available in London. It was not until 1954 when the FCC authorized the NTSC standard for color television broadcast in the United States. The question raised at this point is what was the television actually like? How many channels were available? Naturally the availability of what we have today was unthought of and in most cases seemed impossible, but most television sets were capable of providing at least up to four basic channels. However, these channels were only received clearly in larger cities. It was very difficult for television signals to pass through the mountains and rural areas. In order to resolve the problem what is known as cable television was introduced in 1948. The purpose of cable television was to be able to bring existing broadcast signals to rural areas with community antennas placed at high elevations, usually on mountains or on top of tall poles. Since the invention of cable television, it has grown rapidly. By 1960, there were nearly 700 cable systems. In 1971, 2,750 systems were serving almost 6 million homes. Now in the year 1999, the number has risen to more than 65 million. Of course, the invention of cable television was by far if not the only major technological development for television in the early days of television. Today, cable still continues to advance with new developments with satellites. There are over 80 different channels available to cable subscribers ranging from 24 hour music channels, 24 hour movie channels, and 24 hour news channels, and 24 news channels. In addition to being able to have these types of channels, pay television services or better known as premium channels are also associated with the advancement of cable television. These services offer a variety of popular movies, original programming and sports without commercial interruption. Soon after this, interactive television evolved. Interactive TV describes a range in two-way communication services between service providers and end users. Finally, direct broadcast satellites were introduced to further expand cable television. Direct TV and Primestar are just a few companies associated with direct broadcast satellites. It is clearly easy to figure out that television has and will continue to advance. Now that a few various technological advances and developments have been described, they must be tied into what is most important, and that is how viewer perception and societal influence has been changed from television changing over the past 25-50 years. The main change in television has become the command center of our culture. Because television is quite different from other media such as film, theater, or music, it must be examined carefully and more in depth. People go to movies to watch movies, they go to the theaters to watch plays, and they buy music to listen to it, etc. However, we go to television for almost everything. Politics, literature, music, religion, news, commerce, you name it and television has it. Therefore, this makes us known as television people, because for anything to be legitimate, it has to come through television. Has American society become so dependent on television that in order to be an American, you have to watch television in order to make contact with whatever is happening in the culture to be familiar with what is on the television? In other words, if we didn't have television, do you think that people wouldn't know what was going on or people wouldn't be able to follow events that we see on television? If this is the case, then how did people get by before television's invention? Television also presents us with experience in symbolic form. Is this preferable to what we used to call reality? For example, take when Mark McGuire broke the record for the most home runs, the people who were at the game to actually witness go down in the history books probably wanted to see it on television because if they didn't, they probably would feel a sense of loss and disappointment with the reality of it because this actually did happen to them before it was on television. The next issue of concern is whether or not there is a consequence of image taking over from the word in television? What essentially is the danger in images being more important than words? The images or language of television is changing the world, because it is changing our minds, our thinking, our feelings, and even
the shows reflected the mores of the times - 50's shows had little sex or profanity but plenty of violence and plenty of negative references to certain minorities (e.g. the cowboy and Indian shows). The themes of shows like Leave it to Beaver seem very naive. But there is little on TV today that interests me.
SEX.... Bsck then it was unaceptiblae to have sex on the television and now you see nothing else... Like comercials these days..... Moms making dinner with tube tops on.... or showing breast in bathing suits for sneakers...
Little 12 year old girls are getting bikini waxes people stop promoting sex... that is just wrong... a little here and there is fine but really... calm down lol...
sex and violence the top to major changes from then to now... kind of sickening sometimes!
I think now a days people are looking to be entertained by violence and blood and gore where as then it was just the silly things in life.
Question your asking is really, 'how was society changed since the 1950's?'
There's more violence and foul language on tv.
I still watch Leave It To Beaver , remembering happy times . Shows now , are about the size of a woman's bosom .
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