Beyoncé Seminar

von Patrick Juilfs                                                 1. Introduction Reality TV has become increasingly popular over the last few years and creates an ever-growing abundance of new formats and ideas to entertain the public. Whether it is dating shows or documented reality: People seem fascinated by the concept. Like any other format reality television, too, can have a more significant influence on the viewership than one might anticipate. It is therefore an important task to analyze what these types of entertainment convey and how they influence parts of the population in their thinking or how they can encourage certain emotions and attitudes among their viewers. It is safe to say that not each viewer of a certain television format wil...

von Friederike Alm “Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!”          Radio host Mister Señor Love Daddy in Spike Lee’s „Do the Right Thing“, 1989, featured on Sam’s radio show in „Dear White People“, 2017 Introduction   Coco : ‘Dear White People. Let me tell you about yourselves while I don’t even know who the hell I am.’   Sam : Oh, I don’t know who I am, Colandrea?   Coco : No, you don’t, but I do. You’re the girl who didn’t learn she was Black until Beth Wheeler left you out of her second-grade sleepover, ‘cause you’d be the ‘only one’.   Sam : That is the last time I share a personal story with you. Coco : Well, you see, with me, there is no confusion. People take one look at my skin and they assume that I’m poor or uneducated or ratchet. So yeah, I tone it down. Make myself more palatable; join a sorority, what’s so wrong with that?   Sam : Everything. (Dear White People, Netflix, Chapter IV, minutes 19.30-20.55, italics by F...