Sunday, March 4, 2012

TV Tokenism

HOUSE


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House, on fox, forms each episode's plot around Dr. House. The sub-plots are mainly about House's personal life, and House is the one to solve the diagnosis correctly 99% of the time. He is a rude, demeaning character with no filter, yet he is the center of every episode. House's boss is Cuddy (pictured to his left), and although her position is of higher ranking in the hospital, she is only on screen for on average 5 minutes of the 42 minutes the show is on. Perhaps a more prominent example of the "token minority" is Dr. Foreman, the Assistant Department Head of Diagnostics Medicine, yet he only receives approximately 8 minutes of screen time per episode. He is often the victim of little rude and racist jabs from House.







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