Essay On Orange Is The New Black

Orange is the new black staring Taylor Schilling, is a Netflix original series based off Piper Kerman's memoir, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison. This show is a fictionalized version of Kerman’s experience in jail after being a wealthy law-abiding white woman who lived in New York’s upper middle class. Orange is the new black is a controversial series some say it is almost too risky for daytime television the series slowly unfolds different lifestyles from an upper middle class white woman to black transgender woman. I believe this series is a good popular pop culture to analyze from a feminist theoretical perspective by giving light to a mixed set of races and sexual orientations. An analysis I read on show described

She is a character that the majority of the people of who have seen OITNB fall in love with. Rose has gotten tones of media attention many saying she is confusing women’s sexuality by her beauty. Which made me think, now that the media is almost giving people the okay to express they sexuality people are doing so. Rose and OITNB is bringing awareness to freedom of expression of sexual orientation. “Contrary to common sense conjecture, the concept of heterosexuality is only one particular historical way of categorizing and imagining social relations of the sexes”(kats,31) I belive Rose is great example of this quote.
Orange is the new black is expressing what everyone else doing and feeling.
“Netflix is not a media conglomerate, nor do they have different branches or sub-sidisaries of their company. This allows for a more free and creative writing process.” The way media is structured it does not allow people to creatively express realistic point of views. I believe that way OITNB is such a good series because it is not being “SCWAMPED” by mainstream media. Professor grinners reading Bella’s choice and class discussions have help me I have a better understanding of the dominant ideologies that the media uses to help frame