Gender, Sexuality and the Kardashians

In this paper, I am going to realize an episode from the seventh normalize of Keeping up with the Kardashians  created by Ryan Seacrest and Eliot Goldberg. There argon sise primary(prenominal) characters that I bequeath concentrate on: kris and Bruce Jenner, Kim, Khloe, Kourtney and Rob Kardashian. The main design of this paper will be to decode the representation of wakenual practice roles and sexuality depicted in episodes fourteen and fifteen. I am going to use a textual analysis, which is the formalist analysis of pass judgment of how culture meanings convey special ideologies of race, gender, class and sexuality, and other ideological dimensions  (Kellner, 2009, 12). I will colligate it to power relations among gender roles, work ethic as well as communication between the main characters. The finis of this paper is to analyze and develop the images represented in the show, such(prenominal)(prenominal) as a) sexuality of the feminine role; and b) powerless bewilder of male characters in the finality making process of the telecasting serial.\nIt is nearly impossible to bring on the television, go to the movies, or browse through habitual magazines without encountering sexualized images of women. The popular television series Keeping up with the Kardashians features raw women and highlights their sexualized behavior as empowering and positive. The much sexual they behave, the more they are rewarded in the form of attention, substantial rewards, and monetary success. This is one of the supreme forms of sexual agency procurable to women on popular existence TV shows. According to Benshoff and Griffon, sexual activity is referred to sexual behavior- the condition of cosmos sexual. (Benshoff & Griffon, 2004, 293) It is directly connected to aspects of sex and gender.\nThroughout the season, and more on the button in episodes fourteen and fifteen, the roles of the main characters have not changed much from previous seasons. K ris Jenner appears as an overbearing matriarch to her children with her recent first husband Robert...