Essays on Entertainment

Art is used in mass media to influence people, especially people in the generation and culture we live in today. The majority of art young people receive in our culture is through television and in particularly popular culture networks, like MTV. The television show on…

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a science-fiction parody novel by Douglas Adams. It can be classified as an absurdist story where the protagonist searches a meaning to life. Throughout this character’s journey, he’s faced with multiple obstacles which are totally absurd events that…

Introduction In 1946, Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, the predecessor of Sony started as a small company with capital of just 190,000 yen and approximately 20 employees (Sony, 2018). In 1958, the company name change to Sony Corporation. SONY Corporation is a…

Video games containing violence is a very controversial topic nowadays. Many people are associating violence in video games to aggression in children. Parents believe that violence in video games persuades children to be violent. Henceforth, violent behavior in video games is criminal activity vividly portrayed…

The term “reality” can be defined by the everyday person as “what is real and authentic.” However, reality TV shows seem to have a different idea of the meaning of reality. Reality television is misleading and fails to display the consequences of the actions committed…

In this version of the Disney classic, Sleeping Beauty, Maleficent is betrayed by her “true love,” a man named Stefan, who mercilessly cuts off her wings for the king in return for becoming his heir. Maleficent is hysterical when realizes what happened, so, when Stefan…

The one important thing that all films should have in common, is that they should entertain the viewer. Whether it be romance, action, horror, or sci-fi; the average movie goer wants to forget about the real world and indulge themselves into the world created by…

Metafiction and metafictional techniques are utilized in a variety of mediums to help blur out the line between fiction and reality. Metafiction helps create a larger understanding of the film between the audience and can also help add more appeal to the different mediums. In…

This paper shows different kinds of humour, what strategies people use to translate it and the challenges that are caused by them. I will use the US-sitcom The Big Bang Theory to demonstrate the different types of humour used in the translations of the English,…

The Day After Tomorrow, directed by Roland Emmerich, is an old-fashioned disaster film that uses modern-day special effects to illustrate an apocalyptic end of the world due to global warming. The film details the unforeseen disasters that arise from global warming and the detrimental effects…