Entertainment



Q: Does entertainment influence us negatively or positively?

One of the more interesting revelations Cantor shows that "The Simpsons", who was accused of submitting terribly dysfunctional families, and thus undermining the future of the nuclear family, in fact, supports and confirms it. While in Springfield, his father (as Homer Simpson) did not know that he still loves his family. "The Simpsons" can travel around the world, but they still come back to Springfield and their families at home (Kantor, 70).

Kantor shows how globalization has allowed Simpson to take advantage of the variety that the world has to offer, to choose from consumer goods and technologies. However, their policy is very local. In rethinking the old family television show set in a small town in America, all the institutions that affect the lives of "The Simpsons" are right in your city. They may personally know people who most influenced their lives: the governor of Springfield, director of the local school, a businessman who works Homer Simpson, even members of the media and entertainment law is based in Springfield.

The Simpsons can see them in person and communicate with them from time to time. The federal government and the distant effects of the family very much, but when this happens, the consequences are always negative. Whether Internal Revenue Service (IRS) checks to Homer or fruitless visit, agents Mulder and Scully, nothing good ever comes out of state interference in the lives of citizens. Cantor reveals the theme that recurs in both The Simpsons "and" X-Files. In both cases, the issue of foreigners, both legal and illegal, occurs.

In "The Simpsons", one of the foreign person in the heart of the community, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, an immigrant from India. Apu is not particularly threatening, he actually lives the American dream, but even he is viewed with suspicion ...