Analytical Paper – Ted Lasso and the Empowerment and Disenfranchisement between Social Categories
1) Explain the context of your primary text (what are the various issues at stake, positions people take, and relevance to our discussions?)
2) What’s your thinking so far on that text? (remember that that thinking may change as you conduct your research)
3) Discuss the kinds of research you expect to have to do in order to explore that topic more thoroughly (will you be looking exclusively at scholarly journals? Are there relevant popular resources you may use?).
While your particular primary and secondary texts are up to you, everyone must select from within the following three umbrella topics:
• The empowerment or disenfranchisement of particular social groups through the use of comedy, including race, class, and/or gender
o Consider comics who take on race, class, gender, sexuality explicitly in their work and examine how they engage those topics and to what end.
• The rhetorical value of irony
o Consider comics like Stephen Colbert who employ irony as their primary method of advancing an argument – what are they able to accomplish through those ends and are there limits?
• Rhetorical transgression
o Consider comics who “go too far.” What can an examination of how a particular comic has gone too far help us understand our culture and society? What’s the difference between Tig Notaro and Dave Chappelle?
TED LASSO
Analytical Paper – Ted Lasso and the Empowerment and Disenfranchisement between Social Categories
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April 8, 2021
1 Explain your primary text context (what are the various issues at stake, positions people take, and relevance to our discussions?)
1 The primary text that would be used for the analysis of the comedy series entitled Ted Lasso would focus on the idea of empowerment and disenfranchisement of different genders as portrayed through the symbolisms and representations that could be seen when watching the film. It is clear that the football society is characterized and dominated by a 'masculine atmosphere.' This presupposes the idea that those who are feminine are either too weak or incapable of succeeding in the field CITATION Sta20 \l 1033 (Stanton Lee, 2020). Nonetheless, the comedy series Ted Lasso has also shown how women could dominate in a male-dominated field through various interactions of powerful women in the series.
However, although the volume of discussion about the idea of sexism and feminism could be gleaned from the series, it seems that the juxtaposition of strong, confident women in a male-dominated field provides a clear and refreshing portrayal of empowerment for women.
2 What is your thinking so far on that text? (remember that that thinking may change as you conduct your research)
2 So far, the author believes that the subtle symbolism and portrayals used in the comedy series Ted Lasso encourage rather than force its viewers to open their eyes towards women's capability to dominate in a male-dominated field. Albeit indirect, ...