TV Cultures Assignment "Freaks and Geeks"
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The document discusses the genre of teen television dramas and the cult television show Freaks and Geeks. It provides context on how teen dramas examine the experiences of adolescence and are reflective of the societies that create them. The document also discusses how Freaks and Geeks aimed for realism by letting the camera observe scenes in an objective way and tensions between accurately portraying the adolescent experience and functioning as a network drama. Quotes provide insight into the visual style of the show and challenges of shows that push boundaries of prevailing TV paradigms.
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- 1. Sean O’Malley, Channa Gauci, Samantha Lloyd & Juno Forster
- 3. The focus of the teen drama is to examine the trials and tribulations suffered by young people working their way through adolescence (Green 2005). According to Davis and Dickinson (2004), the genre of teen television is an “inseparable feature of the society within which it exists”.
- 4. "That's why Hollywood stars get paid the big bucks: we can't look like them, but they can act like us." (Teachout T 2013)
- 5. “If the worst thing in your life is somebody makes you go to a dance, then I’d say you have a pretty good life.” (Jeff Rosso, Freaks and Geeks)
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- 8. Jake Kasdan (director) on the visual style of the show, …creating a sense of “reality” by letting the “camera hang back and create this sense of an objective observer, that it’s just real and we’re watching it happen.” (cited in Blastedgoat 2009)
- 9. “Shows that directly confront the prevailing TV paradigms of their era rarely succeed, no matter how good they are. But even in this pilot, what makes the show so good is the internal tension between the desire to accurately reflect the adolescent experience of the characters (and, by proxy, Paul Feig, the writer who has created them) and the need to be a network drama.” (Todd VanDerWerff 2013)
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