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This is a 9 page paper on television’s reliance on negative ethnic stereotypes and violence to depict its stories. “The Sopranos” is used as an example. Critics argue that much of television today seems to rely on negative ethnic stereotypes, violence or both to receive high ratings and in doing so portrays inaccurate distortions of reality and in some cases promotes violent acts, ignorance or plays on the fears of the viewers. A good example of negative violent stereotypes in television is the recent popularity of the HBO drama “The Sopranos”. The program portrays Italian Americans involved in the mob and often involved in gruesome violent acts while conducting the rest of their life similar to that of a middle class American family. Although Italians portrayed in the mob is not a new phenomenon in the entertainment industry, it is believed that is does portray inaccurate images of the Italian community and promotes the acceptance of violence in today’s society.
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reality and in some cases promotes violent acts, ignorance or plays on the fears of the viewers. A good example of negative violent stereotypes in television is the recent popularity
of the HBO drama "The Sopranos". The program portrays Italian Americans involved in the mob and often involved in gruesome violent acts while conducting the rest of their life similar
to that of a middle class American family. Although Italians portrayed in the mob is not a new phenomenon in the entertainment industry, it is believed that is does portray
inaccurate images of the Italian community and promotes the acceptance of violence in todays society. Television today is considered by some critics to
be violent, racist, and reliant on stereotypes in regards to its content and intent. Popular entertainment generally has seemed to become more unconstrained and celebrates the self (Bork, 1996). Most
of the concern does seem to deal with the amount of violence found in todays television and the controls or lack of controls which seem to accompany it. Ray Surette
(1998) in a recent analysis found that humans have always leaned towards violence as entertainment and can be recorded back to the times of the Romans and previously. In relating
to violence in the media and entertainment business as well, it has often been assumed that violence viewed on television can cause a variety of reactions such as fear, violent
crime and tolerance of violent crime among other things (Surette, 1998). Advertisers and television executives often defend their shows saying that the public cannot be influenced by the media
to such an extent that would change their reactions. Researchers who have studied the effects of violence in television and the music industry may not agree however, as they argue
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