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Essay / Character Analysis Of Glee - 1062
Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series presented by the Fox network in the United States. This show has achieved enormous success thanks to its ability to appeal to global audiences since its inception. Glee is unique in consolidating different facets of teen drama and pop culture, and fusing them into a cohesive whole, for both commercial and cultural success. It's a music genre where pop culture, radio and MTV reigned supreme, it's where music, dance, high school, theater and sex intersect. Perhaps the major success of Fox's Glee is due to its ability for its audience to identify with the show. This brings to life the social complication that high school students face. Its storyline consists of social outcasts (which is common among high school students in America) and primarily focuses on characters confronting and challenging dominant social norms regarding relationships, family, and sexuality, which features a cast rich in diversity of race, sexuality and personality. The story of Glee focused on the eccentric members of the high school glee club, showing that it is good to be divergent. As shown in the series, it is a place for weird kids, where the differences between Glee characters are emphasized, preserving the stereotypes about these differences, but the creators, Ryan Murphy, reveal his desire to showing that diversities are worth celebrating and critiquing familiar representations of difference. How does the representation of difference in Glee characters embody familiar stereotypes about differences in race, ability, and sexuality? How does it show these diversities in the narrative, character development or setting? Glee is a constructed world that is a simple exaggeration of reality and consists of...... middle of paper ......transmedia remains a first alternative. The producers' extraordinary marketing tactics of using unusual platforms and consumption behaviors help Glee, as a franchise and music, spread across technical boundaries and into social practices. Illegal torrents and streaming copies of episodes are available online, with YouTube being the main platform for public participation. Dedicated gleeks celebrate Glee by participating in and creating it, rather than simply consuming the media content. Hundreds of YouTube videos feature individuals or groups recreating the covers, dancing and lip-syncing to broadcast recordings or re-enacting scenes, performing the series in subjective and unique ways. This is not fan fiction, in which fans put a new spin on pre-established narratives; these videos rather illustrate a form of “redo”, participatory but respectful of the original creation..