In class last week, we had to do a presentation on art vs. entertainment. Our teacher asked us what we thought art was and what was entertainment. We had a pretty long discussion about these two questions. Everybody had their own point of view. We even showed small video clips of movies and shows that are out to see what people thought was art or entertainment.
To me I think there is no one answer for these questions because everybody has their own perception when they are watching a television show or a movie. Art is a form of creativity as we talked about in our presentation and I think that everything we watch comes from some sort of creativity, even if it is just a funny reality show. Disney movies we see are a form of art. To make these Disney movies it had to come from some sort of creativity. These characters are drawn piece by piece and put together into a wonderful movie that kids and even I enjoy watching.
So is there really just one correct answer to these questions? Who is able to determine whether the shows on television or the movies we watch is art or entertainment? What do you think is art and what is entertainment?
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
What should be censored?
Continuing from the previous blog below from Olga Y., in class, the questions, “what should be censored” and “who can choose the censors” became an outbreak discussion in class. The question still remains, what SHOULD be censored? Of course, we as humans should automatically know and have a conscious of what needs to be censored. Censorship varies from many ages, places and time. For parents, I am sure sex and violence are surveyed to be censored from all kids shows and definitely a lot of evening shows when their children comes home from school.
Do we honestly lack censorship as much as we think we do? How do we adults verify violence? How do we know that little kids are not viewing that we, as adults, see as non-violence as violence? There is a article by Amy Benfer, in 2001 about banning censorship, she states a compelling study that she thought was fascinating to her; “When researchers asks young adults what media content they remember seeing as a child – either sexually or violent – that had a harmful or traumatic or disturbing effect. In the category of violence, you get answers like “Little House on the Prairie” and “The wizards of Oz.” It was’t what you would expect.”
So this can lead us to another question: Do sex and violence protect our children or do they prevent our kids from learning the critical thinking skills necessary for the democratic society?
Do we honestly lack censorship as much as we think we do? How do we adults verify violence? How do we know that little kids are not viewing that we, as adults, see as non-violence as violence? There is a article by Amy Benfer, in 2001 about banning censorship, she states a compelling study that she thought was fascinating to her; “When researchers asks young adults what media content they remember seeing as a child – either sexually or violent – that had a harmful or traumatic or disturbing effect. In the category of violence, you get answers like “Little House on the Prairie” and “The wizards of Oz.” It was’t what you would expect.”
So this can lead us to another question: Do sex and violence protect our children or do they prevent our kids from learning the critical thinking skills necessary for the democratic society?
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