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Ideological Resolutions in Crime Dramas
Q1. Many television genres like crime drama, the sitcom and reality shows presuppose tensions and fractions(部分) in ‘normal’(规范的,标准的) social relations. So to win support [i.e. become popular] programmes(节目介绍)are drawn to difficult ideological areas that will then have to be negotiated… Ideology works by masking, displacing(顶替,置换的), and naturalizing(自然化) social problems and contradictions. Discuss a show or shows we encountered in class or one that you think are relevant and identify the ways they mask(掩饰) or displace ideological contradiction and work toward narrative closure(叙事的结尾) and thus ideological resolution(解决).

Ideology works by masking the social problems and contradictions just like what people generally think the forest should be green and large and responsibly be protected by everyone on the earth. However, when we go to the Vancouver Island, what we “see” the forest is different from what we “imagine”. The forest what we see is the social problem but our imagination just masks the social problem.

In other words, for example, in the show of “Touch by an Angel”, According to Johnson, the normal is the people who live in the rural small town and self-sufficiency and heterosexual, knowable community. The show make a connection between true and god and make a connection between the guys in Hollywood and New York and opportunistic. They discuss what is the real American Dream. Like the clip we see in the class. There is ideological contradiction between a countryman and a plastic surgeon. The countryman think the plastic surgeon should go back to the country while the plastic surgeon think she get a lot opportunity to get ahead of others in the city and chasing her “American Dream”. Television reproduces ideology and value. At the end of the shot, the plastic surgeon feel guilty about her “American dream” and the countryman wins the debate. In this case, people works hard in country is more valuable than people making money and profits in city. Also, the

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