Reflective approach is presented through mirroring the real world as the audience sees it. However, it has limitations, not accounting for whole ranges of variations in text readings, whilst also ignoring mediation processes. The approach is suggesting that real life is the reason for what we see and hear through the media, due to the reflection. The producers lead the audience to believe that something is being recreated in the mind of the audience. For example, in the British episode of Family Guy, a lot of stereotypes are used to present the British in a certain way, but also has a purpose to entertain. A lot of the aspects incorporated within the episode are taken from traditional British values, such as the Queen riding in a horse-drawn carriage, which reflects reality in British society. Another clear representation of the British within the episode is depicted in the Queen herself, Elizabeth II. In the episode, she is represented just as she is in real life, posh, upper class
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