The episode that stood out to me most this time around was Game Face, which aired on May 29,2015. This episode explains different times where people had to use their game face and sometimes hide the truth. I selected this specific episode because it illustrates how people can use game faces in many different situations. I can relate to this topic because while playing sports I use a game face when it is showtime. Once I step between the chalk lines of the baseball diamond, my whole mindset changes and all I can focus on his my game. It is very intriguing listening to how other people use their game face effectively. Everybody uses a game face for something, from sports to hiding something for others. This episode begins this a small scandal …show more content…
in FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) where fourteen people were arrested and the President Sepp Blatter had to answer while not being indicted. Blatter had to put of his best game face when allegations of bribery and corruption arose.
Act one includes interviewing Blair Brauerman, who had to use her game face eight times a day for the whole summer. She worked as a dogsled guide in the Alaskan glaciers, during the day a helicopter would bring in interested tourists eight times a day. Blair had to provide a fun and peaceful description to the visitors of glacier life in Alaska. What they did not know was how harsh it really was, with UV rays drying out noses, and knowing she could fall through a crack in the ice at any moment. She was forced to use her game face to keep the tourists calm while they enjoyed their paid package of glacier excursions. Without her game face, Blair would have terrified the tourists with the truth of how dangerous the glaciers could be. This led to a short Act two, where Tig Notaro who is a comedian, found herself using her game face in the middle of a fourteen show series in Las Vegas. While having nothing to do between shows but sit in the corner of the venue she was performing at, one of the days her manager called and told her to go do something instead of sitting around. Deep down she was so embarrassed, but she did not want to show it, enabling her game face to hide her …show more content…
feelings. Act three talks about the one of the best game faces in sports, who was Terry Sawchuk, a professional hockey goalie from the times they did not wear helmets. Sawchuk’s special defending stance was very effective but it put his face in line of the puck. He took countless blows to the face resulting over six-hundred face stitches. This was the ultimate game face, he would literally put his face in jeopardy just for the success of this team, also resulting in four Stanley Cup wins. The last Act explains how many people with a blush disorder are self conscious in daily life. Elna Baker who works for the radio station explains how she hide it most of her life because of how she looks when visible. This act of hiding who she is, is a type of game face. These blushes would break out and act like hives, but once she was stopped stressing about her disorder the blushes very not nearly as major or consistent. From this episode, revealed to me how Americans use their game faces to their advantage either in sports or even when they are hiding something to a minor degree.
The game face puts Americans into many situations, such as staying composed in the moment. People know they are truly being tested when they have to enable their game face. The aspect of society that is explored is how people can hide things without you knowing. People can use their game face as a disguise from their true self. I learned about how a game face is not only used in serious moments such as big sports games or your class spelling bee. But, they can be used when hiding emotions or physical features which shows who you truly are. Without being able to know whether someone is using their game face, you might never meet the real person
inside. This episode was a great listen because it was so rich in content on something that seemed so simple. Before listening, I thought of a game face only as how I would use one during a baseball game when it was time for business. It took me by surprise when finding out that putting on game face could mean hiding the good or bad. I am glad I spent time listening to this episode because I really enjoyed the Act on Terry the hockey goalie. I could relate to that act the best because of the sports factor, I understand what it is like to put your team in front of yourself. After the episode leaves me thinking of people I have met that could have been enabling their game face, which means there could be something I have no idea about that they are itching to let out but can not.
The performance of the storyteller was not particularly frightening at any point in the story. It was told for the purpose of entertainment, and the storyteller certainly kept his audience interested throughout the tale with hand gestures and body motions. At ...
On the other hand, when I am outside of the classroom, I become this whole different person and start to talk more. I feel that I have gotten use to being quiet in the classroom and conformed to putting on my mask everyday that it is hard for me to not wear the mask in class because if I do not wear it, I feel that I am loosing a part of who I am. All in all, this shows how when we are not seeking approval, we are able to take off our masks and our “self-presentations [becomes] much different in character” (Gergen
In the play “Circle Mirror Transformation” by Annie Baker took place at an acting workshop in small town Vermont. Annie Baker presented the characters to the audiences by them getting to know each other in the almost uncomfortably intimate way. In the play, the characters underwent the emotional growth and the knowledge about each other personal issues. Although theater is only pretending yet the play suggested that it is the best way to get to the truth.
And experimental social psychologists...have studied how social forces and the pressures of a given situation can change the way we behave, regardless of our personalities and background” (43). Many of the Candid Camera hoaxes highlight the fact that people are not accustomed to deviance from social norms. Thus, when roles are broken or reversed, the results prove laughter inducing. For instance, when the dentist launches into a sales pitch about gold-plated tooth necklaces and framed x-rays, it’s nearly impossible not to laugh at his flustered patient’s protest that, “The way our walls are set up in our house...this—this just won’t go with it.” But underlying this farcical situation is a human truth—the unfailing desire to adhere to normal social constructs. The dentist should be cleaning my teeth, our brains protest, not selling earrings bedazzled with them! Further on in the episode, during the dentist-turned-barber hoax, we encounter another universal crutch: white lies. “Please, don’t make me feel bad!” the patient pleads when the planted dentist becomes emotionally distraught after having slathered him in shaving cream, “You’re doing a good job, you are!” In this case, viewers can chuckle at the awkward situation while at the same time considering just how often they, too, voice such dishonesties in day-to-day
Masks are a way an individual expresses themselves with various types of people. We are given different occasions and have to act a certain way to do so. Gergen states that the cause of having a mask is “When an individual seeks approval from this diverse range of personalities,he or she adopts a wholly different mask or public identities.” (197) Each person has a different personality when they are with certain people, based on actions and reactions. For instance, when having a guest visiting for the first time, we tend to look our best and choose the best way to make them feel welcome. We tend to hide things that don 't seem “appropriate” and take out things that seem new. We probably don’t notice, but we create a mask based on appearance since we are hiding the reality based on their first
Doing so establishes a sense of admiration and curiosity that otherwise would have been lost in the excitement and clamor of the crowd. This, in turn, allows Faulkner and the readers of this essay to resist being swept up from the frantic crowd and instead focus on the beauty of the game.
Games can cause you to lose your idea of reality and create a sense of disillusionment. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, games are immensely significant throughout the story. Mental games tear at a Gawain's perception of what's going on, deceiving him to the truth of his situation. Sir Gawain knows this all too well from his experience with the Green Knight. The Green Knight creates a challenge for someone to cut his head off and in twelve months seeks him out to return the favor. Physical games can be as impacting as mental ones; Lady Bertilak attempting to seduce Sir Gawain. This temptation that generates a rift between what his mind knows and what it wants to do leads to more confusion within him She basically throws herself upon him yet he stays strong to his morals. These games within the novel create copious amounts of irony during Sir Gawain's quest. He gets caught up within all these games only to find out later that it was all a hoax. His year long quest is an ironic journey that was produced entirely by the Green Knight. Games hold tremendous value in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the games cause Sir Gawain to lose his sense of reality. Through the Green Knight's games, Sir Gawain's word is truly tested.
This article talked about the fascination of reality vs. illusion. The article examined the media’s current fascination manufactured reality. The article said “in our modern world where every channel seems to have its own version of a reality show, we are inundated with the media’s version of what is real. There is a reason why there are so many of these shows on the airwaves, and that is viewers can’t seem to get enough of them.” The article also talks about how the hunger games draws the children.
Stone, J. and T. Yohn. Prime Time and Misdemeanors: Investigating the 1950s TV Quiz Scandal -- A D.A.'s Account. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1992.
While many teenagers argue that games also teach them life lessons, they fail to allow the player to “climb into his skin and walk around in it.” (p35) Harper Lee’s book, “To Kill a Mockingbird” (published in the 1960s), is a classic novel that contains many universal themes that is still evident today. While it teaches many themes, the novel also displays admirable characters who are also considered
Sight gags are an essential part of comedy, especially the silent comedies of Charlie Chaplin's time. A sight gag is a visual form of comedy. In this form of comedy, the actors rely on the way the audience perceives the actions on screen for humor. This could include a misunderstanding by characters or a misrepresentation of an everyday object. In order to make the gag work, the actor must use smooth, visible actions to convey his or her point. Noel Carroll outlines six different types of sight gags in the book, Comedy/Cinema/Theory. In this paper, I will talk about each gag and give examples from the three Charlie Chaplin films that we have watched.
Some of Goffman’s other works include ‘The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life’, ‘Asylums’, and ‘Stigma’ which are a series of books about social behaviour. They are often referred to as modern classics. The essay on face-work can be considered as an expansion of Goffman’s previous works on interaction and included in this series.
Quiz shows are a TV staple that have kept viewers watching for decades through many different methods, both ethical and unethical. In the 1950s, these methods of manipulating contestants and rigging shows were exposed in what came to be known as the 1950s Quiz Show scandals. These scandals mostly center around one event, the scandal of the show The $64,000 Question and contestant Charles Van Doren. The producers of the show rigged it so fan-favorite Doren would beat the less-liked Stempel. The scandals were felt throughout throughout the nation, and not only changed the quiz show game forever, but also America's perception of the media. The 1950s Quiz Show Scandals opened America’s eyes to the corruption present in the media, but the wrongdoings
Adopted into sociology by Erving Goffman, he developed most terms and the idea behind dramaturgical analysis in his 1959 book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. This book lays out the process of human social interaction, sometimes called "impression management". Goffman makes the distinction between "front stage" and "back stage" behavior. “Front stage" actions are visible to the audience and are part of the performance. We change our hair color, eye color, complextion. Wearing make-up, the way our hair is styled, the clothes we wear. The demeanor we present to the world to the. All of these things lead to an outward appearance of what we want others to think we are. People engage in "back stage" behaviors when no audience is present. We whine and moan about the customers we deal with. Hair goes un-styled, make is wiped off. Clothing is comfortable and unrestricting. When a person conducts themselves in certain way not consistent with social expectations, it is often done secretly if this ...
One of the most famous types of television comedy is the sketch comedy style. Greg M. Smith, in his article “Red Skelton, The Crack-up, and the Quick- change” explains how the move of vaudeville acts to television created the template for all sketch comedies. A small number of performers, often only one or two, “depended on interchangeable acts that could be juggled into different configurations for a show, the sketch necessarily is narratively compartmentalized. Plot elements from one sketch do not carry over to the next, necessitating that the performer slip from one role to another as he/she moves from sketch to sketch.” (n pag) Today’s sketch comedies continue to run independent multiple short sketches per episode. Although they may now have recurring characters, frequently still, only a single-time character is played. Just as there is a prevalence of one actor playing multiple roles per episode, so also are the situations, locations, and interactions often differentiated completely from one scene or show to the next. Some or all of these elements can be found in such shows as Monty Python's Flying Circus, Saturday Night Live, The Whi...