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ENGL 3815 Survey of Popular Culture Fall 2013 PH 321 Dr . David Lavery Bleeping

ENGL 3815 Survey of Popular Culture Fall 2013 PH 321 Dr . David Lavery Bleeping.

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ENGL 3815 Survey of Popular Culture Fall 2013 PH 321 Dr . David Lavery Bleeping

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  1. ENGL 3815 Survey of Popular Culture Fall 2013 PH 321 Dr. David Lavery Bleeping

  2. ”Until the 1970s, nobody swore on television. Then came "All in the Family" in 1971. Archie Bunker was like no other TV character we'd ever seen or heard. He was multiply flawed, he used the bathroom, and his daily vernacular included mild profanity. The show spent five years at the top of the ratings, inspiring broadcasters to relax their restrictions on common vulgarities. Some saw this as a sign of the coarsening of our culture. I think it was evidence that our national drama was finally growing up. Before long, cable brought premium services like HBO and Showtime into American homes, delivering Hollywood movies uncut and uncensored.” --Robert J. Thompson on National Public Radio (2003) Survey of Popular Culture

  3. “Of course, the movies had learned to cuss back in the '60s, and this stuff made "All in the Family" sound like "Father Knows Best.” So what happens? (Bleep) happens. Now the bleep tolls from the morning talk shows to comedies on late night. It often comes in long strings (bleep, bleep, bleep), making the dialogue in programs like "Jerry Springer" sound more like telegraph messages than human sentences. The bleep is really kind of silly when you think about it. It calls attention to itself and invites us to guess what it's covering up, which is never much of a challenge.” Survey of Popular Culture

  4. “In "The Osbournes," for example, there's something delightfully musical about the contrapuntal play of vocal syllables and electronic deletions. Other network and basic cable channels have gone beyond the bleep. Two years ago, characters on Comedy Central's potty-mouthed cartoon "South Park" said the S word 162 times in one trenchant half-hour installment. Cursing can be a blessing for television. After the medium's long history of bowdlerization, it's nice that adults can occasionally talk like adults on TV now.” Survey of Popular Culture

  5. "Holy F&*$ing Shit”: Profanation, Parody, andBleeping American Unreality in The Onion, The Daily Show, and The Colbert ReportGiving and Taking Offence, University of Aveiro, Portugal “Part of what makes "The Sopranos" so good is the ribald poetics, the profane patois, the full use of the American language. It's not suitable for little kids, but neither is "King Lear”. . . . The problem with cursing today is that overuse is taming it. It took five centuries to build up the taboo quotient of some of these words. It'll take only a generation to wear them out completely. A culture needs curses, and we're going to sorely miss the shock and awe a good bad one could once elicit.” Survey of Popular Culture

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