خلاصة:
This article discusses how the Extreme Makeover: HomeEditionUS
television reality program, which focuses on rebuilding houses for those in need,
sets unrealistic boundaries for the American Dream’s standard of living of
low-income homeowners in the United States. Passing through economic hardship
in the past several years, it is important to study how this program can meet the
real expectations of the deserved families and viewers in a way that it doesnot
lead to more economic pressure for the selected family who is having their
house reconstructed. Based on Gerbner’s Cultivation theory, the media shapes
the peoples’ reality and view on the world around them and in this case,
it shapes the expectations of an American dream home. This article analyzes
how homeownership has become an American Dream and how the low-income
families participating in Extreme Makeover: HomeEdition had struggled to become
homeowners. It will do so by looking at five examples of families who have faced
difficulty in maintaining the lavish homes that have been rebuilt for them by
Extreme Makeover reality program team, with the use of a multidisciplinary frame
and discourse analysis methodology. Hencit will describe how this program has set
boundaries and raised expectations for the target families and viewers according
to the Cultivation theory.
ملخص الجهاز:
"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Setting the American Dream’s Homeownerships Standard of Living and its Costs Heshmat Sadat Moinifar1 RayehehAliTavoli2 Abstract: This article discusses how the Extreme Makeover: HomeEditionUS television reality program, which focuses on rebuilding houses for those in need, sets unrealistic boundaries for the American Dream’s standard of living of low-income homeowners in the United States.
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is a reality program aired by ABC in which it plans to rebuild a house for a deserving American family who by default has said to be living in hope of the American dream.
The fourth section will discuss how the low-income deserving families chosen in the program struggle with the living standard or class portrayed within Extreme Makeover: HomeEdition’s American Dream ideal.
Below are five of the cases mentioned as an example of how the families struggle to maintain their dignity in their newly built American Dream house as what has been given to them had been more than they could afford: Case Study Extreme Makeover: Home Edition has been aired since 2003.
" Conclusion As mentioned in the article , it is believed that the program Extreme Makeover: Home Edition sets boundaries as to where the ideal American Dream Home stands and how it should look like in line with a Cultivation theory approach which supports the TV’s role in shaping the views and realities of the target audience."