The document discusses how media outlets both challenge and encourage traditional ideologies of marriage. It notes that marriage has historically been viewed as a ritual and tradition, but that interracial and same-sex relationships were once stigmatized. It analyzes how several films, such as Imitation of Life and Natural Born Killers, portrayed marriage and relationships in challenging traditional or twisted ways. However, it also acknowledges that some traditions of marriage remain the same, while other aspects are changing as marriage can now go beyond gender and race.

1. Argument Do media outlets challenge the traditional ideologies of marriage? Or encourage them?

2. Marriage is a ritual, a tradition

3. Marriage is a ritual, a tradition

4. Marriage is a ritual, a tradition

5. Marriage is a ritual, a tradition

6. Marriage between ethnicities was not a common practice in those times and was outlawed in certain states.

10. Interracial relationships were stigmatized. The idea of same-sex relationships were also stigmatized and considered deviant

11. Marriage symbolized different things to the previous generation as expressed in the media