Cultural Studies

This film distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures in 2006 is one of the few husband-wife directed films. Indeed, Jonathan Dayton partnered up with his wife Valerie Faris to provide this excellent comedy-drama road film. It is an American movie filmed in Arizona and Southern California although the family home is in New Mexico in the story. Sheryl Hoover and Richard Hoover are parents of two children (...)

According to Erving Goffman, human beings put on a “performance” when it comes to their social interactions with others. A person will put on a role for other individuals, also known as the audience, that he or she is interacting with. Depending on the surroundings and who the person is interacting with, he or she will present himself or herself according to what role he or she should play (...)

Honey Boo Boo is not a pastry bread, but a little girl. Alana Thompson is the real name of Honey Boo Boo. She is a little girl from Georgia in the American South. She is the star of a reality television show called Here comes Honey Boo Boo,. This little girl was discovered in another television show called Toddlers and Tiaras. This little girl obtained her own television show because she is not like everyone else (...)

Dance Moms is an American reality television series that first aired in 2011 and is still airing today. This reality television show is about the dance instructor Abby Lee Miller, the moms and their six young daughters. At the Abby Lee Miller studio, she trains young dancers as young as two years old. However, in the pilot of the reality show, we see Miller train six years old to thirteen years old. The goal of the moms is to make their child appear on the list of good/professional dancers (...)