What is not cinema Flashcards
1
Q
TV often linked with cinema but is not the same
A
Has its own medium specificity different to film.
2
Q
Ghostwatch broke contract between audience and broadcaster
A
- Where factual rhetoric used, should be FACT
- Where liveness rehetoric used, should be LIVE
- By going against this, anger created
3
Q
TV Part of everyday life
A
- Passive
- Box in the corner
4
Q
Film/TV
A
- Film chemical substance (Still?)
- TV Electronic, quest for mass communication
- Broadscasting started without image (Radio)
5
Q
50% of films made lost
A
- TV early programmes dont exist (no means of recording without video)
- Close to theatre history
- Lacks continuity
- No golden age of TV
6
Q
TV emerges from radio
A
Instant communication and modernity
7
Q
TV is live (Intimicay)
A
- Dangerous and unpredictable
- No way of of preserving early TV liveness
- Closeness
- Makes public events private
- Delivers to domestic family
- Co prescence with viewer
8
Q
What distinguishes TV from film
A
- Direct address (Ellis: Rhetoric of liveness)
- Flow, planned sequence
- Event Television (Ellis: Together in seperation)
9
Q
BUT NOW
A
- Convergence Culture
- Digital TV
- VoD
- Widescreen and surround sound
- Cinema live broadcast
10
Q
Why Ghostwatch controversial?
A
- Went against athority of BBC
- Exploitation of rhetoric and conventions for impartiality illusions
- BBC lost control of live TV
- Like a mockumentary: Exploiting conventions for sense of authenticity
