Author Archives: jlavin1

I am back home in the Rio Grande Valley, sharing a room with my brother since he is also back home from Baylor. I have a fairly nice computer with a webcam and two monitors, however my room is a mess and our WiFi bandwidth may not be able to handle everyone on the internetContinue reading “Activity 3/23”

Summary: This chapter discusses how genres invoke certain feelings, settings, and even narratives to mind through their strong correlation to those things which we have been conditioned to with many forms of Media. For example, how certain actors in movies usually give us insight as to what movie this might be or even how theContinue reading “Genre Schmenre”

Summary: The articles focus on how advertises have used sexual tones in their advertisements to either bring in a particular target market or appeal to men/women through their carnal desires. Examples would be how advertises promised to make women more desirable if they purchased the product or how men would look more masculine if theyContinue reading ““The built-in sexual overtone,” “Back to the breast and beyond,” and “Babes in consumerland” in The Hidden Persuaders”

Summary: The article discusses how Subaru’s attempt at picking up their sales by focusing their sales at five core groups: teachers and educators, healthcare and IT professionals, outdoorsy types, and lesbians. They found that among lesbians, “there was such an alignment of feeling, like [Subaru cars] fit with what they did”, noted by how theyContinue reading “How Subarus Came to Be Seen as Cars for Lesbians”