1950s

• Beulah
• Amos 'n' Andy

1960s

• Julia

1970s

• Sanford and Son
• Barefoot in the Park
• Good Times
• Grady
• Baby, I'm Back
• The Jeffersons
• The Sanford Arms
• The Bill Cosby Show
• That's My Mama
• What's Happening!!

1980s

• 227
• A Different World
• Amen
• Benson
• Bustin' Loose
• Charlie & Company
• Diff'rent Strokes
• Melba
• Frank's Place
• Gimme a Break
• Irene
• Sanford
• The Cosby Show
• The New Odd Couple
• The Redd Foxx Show
• The Robert Guillaume Show
• What's Happening Now!!

1990s

• Cosby
• Family Matters
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
• Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
• Homeboys in Outer Space
• The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer
• The Jamie Foxx Show
• Kenan & Kel
• In the House
• Cousin Skeeter
• Living Single
• Malcolm & Eddie
• Martin
• Moesha
• My Brother and Me
• New Attitude
• Out All Night
• The Parent 'Hood
• The Parkers
• The PJs
• Rhythm & Blues
• Roc
• The Royal Family
• The Sinbad Show
• Sister, Sister
• Sparks
• The Steve Harvey Show
• Sugar & Spice
• The Wayans Bros.
• Thea
• All That
• Smart Guy

2000s

• All of Us
• The Bernie Mac Show
• The Boondocks
• Cuts
• Eve
• Everybody Hates Chris
• Fatherhood
• Girlfriends
• Half & Half
• Hey Monie
• Whoopi
• Love, Inc.
• My Wife and Kids
• One on One
• The Proud Family
• Romeo!
• That's So Raven
• The Tracy Morgan Show
• House of Payne
• The Game
• Second Time Around
• Kevin Hill

Bibliography Books

Political Parties and Black People: Participation, Representation and Exploitation
by Marian Fitzgerald

Black to African American: A New Social Representation
by Serge Moscovici

Colored Pictures: Race and Visual Representation
by Michael D. Harris

Representing Black Britain: Black and Asian Images on Television (Culture, Representation & Identity)
by Sarita Malik

Review

Review

Though it's a madcap comedy, MY WIFE AND KIDS' comic formula centers on the family's dynamic.

Mom Janet (Tisha Campbell) is the breadwinner and sets the bottom line, Dad Michael (Damon Wayans) is the caregiver and the loose screw, son Michael Jr. (George Gore II) is a dolt, elder daughter Claire (played by both Jazz Raycole and Jennifer Freeman) is a clumsy beauty, and youngest daughter Kady (Parker McKenna Posey) is smart and sassy.

Family members constantly gang up on each other before sharing advice and love at the end of the show. What happens in between is where the series goes awry. Serious issues like teen pregnancy, fear of acceptance, drug use, body image, and valuing a spouse's contribution to the household are mixed in with ridiculous behavior; slaps, threats, and anger are thrown around.

The issues themselves are often glossed over, and the fact that they're addressed at all shouldn't overshadow the reality that the adults might handle them poorly.

Janet and Michael admonish their kids' chaotic behavior at the same time that they exhibit very childish behavior themselves -- it might be difficult for tweens and young teens to understand what's meaningless banter and what's inappropriate behavior.

Self Directed Research

http://www.mywifeandkids.com/index.html
From this link i was able to see information bout the show. And the character profile.

http://www1.medialiteracy.com/representation.jsp
from this site i was able to see representation of black people and find out information about different organisations.

http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/GenderMedia/index.html
From this site i am able to find information about gender race and ethnicity in the media

http://media.guardian.co.uk/
From this site there is information about representation in the media and i can read on articles regarding represenation of black people.

Key Words

blaxploitation film - film of 1960s and 70s in which black actors featured in principal roles usually associated with whites.

Cultural effects theory - audience theory which argues that, in absence of real substantial evidence of the direct relationship between media texts and people's behaviour, the effects of exposure to the media should be seen as long term and more subtle.

cultural imperialism- the dominance of Western, particularly US, cultural values and ideology across the world.
Cultural transmission- the process through which symbolic structures and dominant discourses characteristics of a social group or culture are passed from one generation to another.

Culture- the social practices of group of people, usually involving shared language, history, values, beliefs, lifestyle, appearance, dress and entertainment.

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MEDIA LANGUAGE

The cinematography that the show uses are family medium shots and closs ups. They use these type of shots as the audience are able to see the surroundings and are also able to see what is going on in the scene, they also use close shots of the characters faces to show expresions after someting shocking happens, as the genre is comedy the type fo expressions that are show are over exhadurated to make the audience laugh. they editing of the show is very basic as they dont use fast pace cuts and at times they dont use cuts at all, as the characters are all in one shot.The mise-en-scéne of the show is a family house, were the shots mainly take place in the kitchen or living room, however they have other sets such as the rooms bathroom and garage. the setting is of a house set in america, the house is large and shows how the family are, they seem to be working class people. the clothing they have are set for the charaters age group and gender, as claire would be wearing clothes that are in fashion and trendy, while Jr. wears clothes like his farther would wear. the lighting is natural lighting as they try to show that the house is bright to give the audience the impression that the family is up beat and frendly. the show has a sound bridge from a shot outside the house going into the house were it fades down. there are not any voice overs, however in some scences some of the characters may be thinking and only the audince are able to know what is being said. this would give the audince that they know more than the actual charaters and are able to interact with them.

INSTITUTION

The show is shown on two different channels, one being Trouble TV and the outher Channel 4. The programme is produced and directed by the ‘Wayne bros’.t comes on trouble at 6pm and later at 10pm. It is shown at these particular times as it can watch by any one as it can appeal to a variety- of different people as the characters are of different ages.

GENRE

the type of genre that the programme is, comedy genre. the show is based on family life and family issues and how each character is able to come one as a family. the audince would are able to relfect on this as they can see what goes on in this family and relate to what happens in their family. for example Jr. getting his girlfriend pregnant and having the child. as there are people who do have a child at a young age would be able to reflect on this however having humor to it. such as when Jr. had to meet vanesas parents. the show can be compared to programmes such as ' the cosbi show'. the prgramme is a closed narrative as each show has a new story to it.

REPRESENTATION

the show represents family life and issues. the show focuses on one main character Micheale who is the father, and shows how he would handle situations and twist them to make each person in the house suffer as a punishment, however not making them suffer brutaly and more like punishments that are exadurated. as the show is of a black family the people that are most likely to be represented are black people of all ages. the stereotypes that poeple have of black people are very neggative as they would think that all black people are drugg additcs, thiefs and thugs. by wathcing this type of show the sterotypes come away from black people as the audience are able to see black people in a more postive way.

AUDIENCE

the audince for this type of programme would mainly be teenagers however, as the show consists of different characters of all ages any one can watch it, as the show doesnt have scences that are not sutible for a younger aundiece. this would be good for the audinces as they are able to relate to a particular character. for example Jay thinks as she is becoming old she doesnt look attractive and as many women become older they tend to become more paronoid (LOL). so they are able to relate to them.

IDEOLOGIES AND VALUES

family life and family values. as family is one of the most important aspects in this show it is important that the family is shown in a postive and strong aspect. the audience are able to relate to this as they would see how the family is and also want to be like them. as the family is shown to be happy and caring.

NARRATIVE

Open narrative, the programme does not have a continuous narrative, as in each episode there is a different story.