Veronica Mars And Stereotypes

Veronica Mars is a show about a young woman and her ability to help her father, Detective Mars, solve cases. In this case, she is trying to figure out who killed the dean of her school, and will stop at nothing until she does so. Her strong female force and her outside-of-the-norm characteristics prove that not all television series involving cops can be ruled as the same, despite the opinion of Stuart Kaminsky in his article “The History and Conventions of the Police Tale”. Although certain concepts and stereotypes are found in the show, such as representation of race, Veronica Mars proves to be a “cop show” that breaks free, or at least attempts to, of the definitive idea of many shows in the media.

Veronica Mars and her father seem to
Granted that she is blonde, thin, and not bad on the eyes, she is not dressed how a typical female on television would be expected to. This is where the idea of the “midriff”, seen in “Merchants of Cool”, a PBS Frontline documentary, comes into question. This is a term used to explain the image of women portrayed by the media. The “midriff” is typically an attractive, thin, suggestively dressed female. Using this female image is an attempt to engage the audience, particularly young women, to an image they can associate with and strive to be. The midriff gets all the attention, especially from men, and because of this, is seen as a powerful force until, of course, she ages, gains weight, or says something of
It is clear that in the “real world”, especially college campuses, races rarely mix, and if they do, it is a rare occurrence and temporary. The message this sends is that people of two different backgrounds may unite every so often, but they spend most of their time with a basic group they identify with. We see this as Veronica and Wallace meet for lunch, and he confessed that he has seen Veronica’s ex-love interest and other close friend eating lunch together. Obviously, his character is seen as the middle man What the episode fails to address, however, is the possibility that there could ever be a love interest between Veronica and Wallace. After all, Wallace’s character found it suspicious that a male and female are eating alone together, but the fact that the same can be said for he and Veronica as they are talking is completely ignored! Could this be because a relationship between a white female and a black male is