Character Analysis Of Glee

Glee is an American musical comedy- drama television series presents by Fox network in the United State. This show garner a massive success with its ability to appeal to the global audiences since its inception. Glee is unique in its consolidation of different facets of teen drama and pop culture, and merges it together as a cohesive whole, to both commercial and cultural success. It consists of musical genre, where pop culture, radio and MTV used to rule supreme, it is where music, dancing, high school, drama and sex intersects.

Perhaps Fox's Glee major success is due to its ability for its audiences to relate to the show. It brings to life the social complication that high school kids deal with. It storyline consists of social outcast (that is common among the high school kids in America) and is primarily focuses on the characters dealing with and challenging prevailing social norms of relationships, family and sexuality that features a cast rich in diversity of race, sexuality and personality. Glee storyline centered on the quirky members of high school Glee club, portraying that it is good to be divergent. As what is being shown in the show, it is a place for weird kids, where the differences of Glee's characters are highlight, preserving stereotypes about those differences, yet the creators, Ryan Murphy reveals his desires to show that diversities are worth celebrating and to critique familiar representations of difference.

How does the representation of difference in the Glee characters embody familiar stereotypes of differences in race, ability and sexuality? How does it show these diversities in narrative, character development or framework? Glee is a constructed world that is a mere exaggeration of reality and consist o...

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...transmedia medium remains an initial alternative. The producers’ extraordinary marketing tactics of utilizing unusual platforms and consumer behaviors helps Glee as franchise-cum-music disseminate across technical boundaries into social practices. Illegal torrents and streaming copies of episodes are available online, with YouTube as the prime platform for audience participation. Devoted gleeks celebrate Glee by participating and creating it, rather than merely consuming the media content. Hundreds of YouTube videos feature individuals or groups recreating the covers, dancing and lip-syncing to cast recordings or reenacting scenes, subjectively and uniquely interpreting the show. This isn’t fan fiction, in which fans put new spins on preestablished narratives; instead, these videos illustrate a type of “redoing,” participatory but respectful of the original creation.