s. The internet has become more central to the television medium, with both official and illicit downloadable shows, transmedia narrative extensions, and the rise of sites like Hulu and YouTube as alternative ways to view a wide range of programming
Streaming services are more dominant than cable television today. Almost every show that you want to watch is now on a streaming platform.
Broadcast TV on the other hand carries large amounts of non-fiction:news, documentaries, announcements, weather forecasts, various kinds ofsegments that are purely televisual in their characteristic f
I feel like with tv and shows today there are so many shows of different genres chose from. But I do believe that cinema have strayed away from nonfiction.
but also because of the attention span that TV assumes of itsaudience, and the fact that memory of the particular series in all its detailcannot be assume
This is where I think atmosphere has to play a big part when it comes to watching tv and cinema. When you’re watching tv at home you are more susceptible to distraction or even falling asleep. The comfort if your home is a big contrast compared to a theatre.
but also because of the attention span that TV assumes of itsaudience, and the fact that memory of the particular series in all its detailcannot be assumed. People switch on in the middle and get hooked; theymiss an episode or two; someone phones up in the m
I feel like there is an assumption that people who watch tv are multitasking or distracted while watching. That’s the big difference between cinema. When at a theatre all of your attention is on the movie, causing you to be more immersed in the film.
The difference between TV and Cinema is the repetition that is developed throughout each media. Films being “closed system” is referring to how most films are portrayed. Often being predictable before the movie is over. This is due to the amount of time that the film is. The problem is introduced, characters go through some type of adversity, the climax happens, and then there is closure. With a TV show the problem can be extended through various episodes, adding depth and new doorways for other material to be introduced.
material as possible and to balance kinds of repetition and innovationagainst each other, the TV form is more open-ended. It is a pattern ofrepetition that is far more centred on the narrative problematic than incinema. Cinema’s single texts tend to inaugurate a novel problematic, anew story subject, for each fil
The difference between TV and Cinema is the repetition that is developed throughout each media. Films being “closed system” is referring to how most films are portrayed. Often being predictable before the movie is over. This is due to the amount of time that the film is. The problem is introduced, characters go through some type of adversity, the climax happens, and then there is closure. With a TV show the problem can be extended through various episodes, adding depth and new doorways for other material to be introduced.
There is no real difference in narrational form between news and soapopera. The distinction is at another level: that of source of mate
News programs and soap operas have similar structure and effectiveness on their respective viewers. Both programs similarly display ongoing crises that may lead to cliffhangers. The only thing that separates them is how the information is being portrayed. The news is straight forward because it’s informational and soap operas use characters to relay the information.
Cultures consist of the maps of meaning, theframeworks of intelligibility, the things which allow us to make sense of a worldwhich exists
Cultures can form how we view and see the world and other people. Enabling people to interpret their own views and opinions.
: the fact that he’s Black, the fact that he’s a winning athlete,the fact that he’s carrying the British flag, all those things are marked. But themeaning is not simply in those things, but it’s in them insofar as they subvertour expectations, the expectations we brought to them which nobody has saidanything about at all, nobody has marked this a
Hall uses the example of Linford Christie, a Black athlete that wrapped himself in the British flag, to show how meaning is produced not only by what is present but also by what is absent. His Blackness against the Union Jack forces audiences to confront assumptions about who counts as British. Media also allow viewers to identify with or against them, creating a sense of identity through representation. This explains how images don’t only carry meaning, but also form how individuals see themselves in connection to society
So the representation is the way in which meaning is somehowgiven to the things which are depicted through the images or whatever it is, onscreens or the words on a page which stand for what we’re talking abou
Hall states that representation in media and cultural studies are important. He argues that modern culture is filled with images, making representation a central way we understand the world. Images are powerful because they circulate around the world and influence how people interpret it. This section emphasizes that representation is complex, not straightforward, and requires careful analysis.
two investigators argue about whether it was a mistakefor a colleague to put up posters that call attention to a pedophile. Later, they argueabout the appropriate sentence of a man who killed the pedophile. These disagreementsreflect the ‘police family’ dimension of the programs.
This highlights the battles and challenges that the police in the shows are tasked with. Usually ending in a deciding factor
Television’s various depictions of crimeweave together realism and melodram
Criminals minds is great at depicting real life situations that make it feel like you’re in the show. The characters are usually going through their own problems in their lives while facing a big case.
As women have increased their presence in the criminal justice workplace, they appearmore frequently in crime dramas
To add onto one of my other annotations, women have became a prominent part of crime shows. In the shows I’ve seen they seem to be level headed and witty and are labeled as the ones you don’t want to mess with. Which I think is great and strays away from males having major roles.
In the earlier crimedramas, the hero was a man, usually macho, and likely to be an iconoclastic loner. Thus,gendered identity, the nature of work, and the hero’s moral authority were stitched nicelyinto the narratives of television crime dramas. But times change and so do the narratives.Today, women are featured more in crime dramas, and notions of the ideal cop focus lesson macho displays of strength and more on technical competence, what Messerschmidt(1993) calls techno-masculinity.
I feel like there is a great shift when it comes to the character format of these shows. Although back then it was usually focused on one male lead, now these crime shows usually have a team or group that are the main characters. This helps create some diversity in the show.
Crime dramas are morality plays whichfeature struggles between good and evil, between heroes who stand for moral authorityand villains who challenge that authority
A great show that compares to this is Criminal minds. The cops and agents a portrayed as the good while whoever they are tracking down are the evil.Often being put in predicaments that show the good morale of the cops.
Of course many people who watch television still registersome of these items as ‘interruptio
I deem it as an interruption as well. That’s why i think streaming is such a great idea. Paying for a streaming subscription with no adds is better than paying a cable bill with ads.
. The decisive innovation was in ser-vices financed by commercial advertising. The intervals betweenprogramme units were obvious places for the advertising to beincluded. In British commercial television there was a specificand formal undertaking that ‘programmes’ should not be inter-rupted by advertising; this could take place only in ‘naturalbreaks
A big change came to tv when brands could sponsor television companies to buy advertisements time in the form of commercials. It contrasts British commercial TV and their own beliefs. . Ads’s were deemed as interruptions and only happened during “natural breaks”. This shows the difference in cultures when it comes to commercial television. With one wanting to please the audience and the other wanting to please advertisers.
TV created a planned sequence of programs, or even different possible sequences, that flowed together as one continuous stream. Viewers experienced this flow as a single, easy operation. By just turning on the TV, rather than choosing each event separately. This highlights how television shaped the way people consumed media as an ongoing stream instead of individual, isolated events.
In the 1970s, Raymond Williams described flow as something people experienced by watching TV that connected them to local and national culture, almost like part of being a citizen. In today's age things are a lot different. With digital technology and the internet, there is less focus on consumer data as a whole and focuses on individual “user” data. Instead of just watching as citizens, people are now treated like active parts of online networks, where media constantly flows through endless platforms and connections.
Flow was first used to explain how traditional TV worked, but now that media has changed so much with cable, streaming, and online platforms, the concept is now being reimagined to help understand how flow can work in today’s age.
Over the past forty years, the concept of flow hasbeen used in media studies as a conceptually influential,but ultimately limited model for the textual analysisof television conten
Flow was most useful when broadcast TV was the main way people watched, with fixed schedules and channels. Today, with streaming and on-demand services, viewers have more control, so the flow model does not explain everything about how people watch media now.
ge. Thus, in film genre study, the theoreticalgenre calledfilm noir was constructed out of films formerly grouped underthe historical labels "detective films;• "gangster films" and "thrillers:• Indeed, even melodramas such as Mildred Pierce were discovered to possess the stylistic traits of this newly created theoretical g
When a film or show contains certain traits they’re put under a certain category. Like the genre film nior, it contains thrillers, gangster films, and Detective films.
dio. Television,one 1940 book argued, “requires concentrated aention and cannot serve asa baground for su activities as bridge playing or conversa
This argument did not last well over time in my opinion. Many people, myself included, enjoy background noise and light. And the tv is perfect for that.
that “the advertiser buys freedom forthe listener at the same time he buys time and tal
Today advertisements are seen in every form. Rather it be radio, television, or streaming, there are always going to be adds. Paying for no adds is a quick way for companies to make extra money.
direction of the American television industry in its first decade waslargely arted by leaders of the radio broadcast
This is an interesting statistic compared to today, where streaming services have taken over radio broadcasting and television broadcasting.
Typically also, television was considered a remedy for problem ildren
This has became a problem now. Now parents see television as a way to get their child to keep them occupied, which I think has more negative consequences than positive.
“family now stays home all the time and wates the same program
I believe that families came closer together was due to the fact that the television was a fairly new invention, and the fact that the general public was able to purchase them.
Television, it was said, would bring the family ever clo
Television was seen as a family event where everyone would come to sit together and spend time. Compared to now where you have the enjoyment watching shows from any device you own. And I feel like that can cause division between families rather than brining them together like the television was supposed to.
. On thefew occasions when sets did appear, they were placed either in the basementor in the living room
I feel like the living room is a commonplace for a television set. It’s become a house staple for a tv to be in the living room.
It listed options including the living room, game room, or“some strategic spot where you can see it from the living room, dining roomand kiten.”
Back then many families had only one tv, while nowadays families tend to have multiple tv’s throughout the house.