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little example of what i mean
the other day a young friend of mine mentioned that he had just seen "the three musketeers" with charlie sheen , kefer sutherland and oliver platt . and that he liked it . i said that if he liked the film then he should deffinatly read the book (you might notice from my name that i like that book) a few days later he came and told me that he didn't like the book at all , he couldn't get into it and that he ended up putting it down after only the first few chapters and he said it was because i was nothing like the film ...........so what i want to know is do you think that preconceptions from film and tv are affecting the up and comming generations and not allowing them to think for themselves and open there minds to the world??

2007-12-28 13:35:33 · 4 answers · asked by I hate little green pigs 3 in Arts & Humanities Books & Authors

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I think so. We've entered the age were pretty much all information comes to us in the form of T.V., movies, music, what we hear in the news, what celebrities say, etc. and the young generation of today is pretty muched absorbed by all of this.

They see their favorite celebrities doing a bunch of stupid stuff like getting drunk, possesing drugs, going into rehab, they see this and they think it's 'cool' to imitate those things.

Another example, they watch movies specifically designed for younger audiences and learn that being a virgin means your a loser you can't get laid, if your not throwing a football or getting drunk at a party you "have no life", and are "anti-social", to a guy, if your not physically strong and don't have muscles, your seen as weak and have no chance of getting a date.

Or young teen girls look at models in magazines and determine that's what they should look like: skinny as a stick and loaded with makeup.

I think younger people need to try and open their eyes a little more when it comes to life. Don't believe or be influenced by everything the mass media throws at you.

2007-12-28 13:49:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

As sad as this is to say, classic lit is not always for the younger generation. At least not when their too young to get into it. It can sometimes help if they are forced to both read a book and watch a movie based on that book then do a report comparing the two, but not always.

You have to understand that we have always been more about the visuals and less the words. Stop and think about ancient Greek plays. People could go to watch the play and see the story unfold before their eyes. Novels do have various kinds of action to them, yes, but they how much description do they have? We can not simply pick up a story and understand what exactly is going on if there is no description to tell us things like the setting or the action. But we can go to a movie, watch TV, go to a musical, or go to a play and understand these things because they are purely visual.

Where as an author must use descriptions to paint a painting in our mind of what is happening, a director and crew manage to give us that painting right away. For example, let's take a sword fight. It could take an author a few pages to describe a two minute long sword fight. So it could take the reader several minutes to get that sword fight in their mind's eye. But a choreographer can have the participant's visually give us that sword fight in the two minutes time it would normally take and have us wowed in that short span. The visual aspect takes less time for us to understand fully everything that is occuring.

Does this mean that newer generations can not think for themselves? Stop and consider that before radio, movies, and TV the same thing could well have been said about much the same could be said for much of the literature being produced in the various periods of time. And yet much of the literature that would have been put down in the past we are more likely now to see as classic lit.

2007-12-28 23:36:31 · answer #2 · answered by knight1192a 7 · 1 0

There is billions of dollars directed towards television advertisement. They do not think that media does not have an effect on youth or adults. They know that it does and the exact effects can be mathematically PREDICTED thus determining the amount of money spent on advertisement vs profit gained. Even dialects and accents are crumbling not to mention cultural or philosophic differences. We are becoming more homogenized as we speak. Languages and religions are dieing and assimilating into larger ones. Corporations are becoming global. Take leinenkuegles. A local brewery in Chippewa falls Wisconsin, purchased by miller. which is owned by a global company that supplies 14-17% of the globes alcohol headquartered in Africa.

Does it restric thought? No. Not in comparrison to the amount of thought added into their world for consideration. Does it direct thought? Yes.

2007-12-28 21:44:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Definitely ! New media, which is interactive and engaging, tends to seduce people into believing that the issues/ideas presented are the truth. People's senses are so engaged with the visuals and audio they see that they forget to analyse the flow of information. Hence, it becomes even more crucial today for all young people to go though some form of media literacy education that will help them become savvy and discerning consumers and producers of media. To find out more about media literacy and media literacy education, visit this website by the Association of Media Literate America http://www.amlainfo.org/media-literacy/definitions

2007-12-28 21:46:48 · answer #4 · answered by lavender81 2 · 1 0

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