FILM 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Eric Hobsbawm, Podcast, Global Warming
9 Oct 2018
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Week 9 manufacturing news: homework/seminars, writing workshop in seminar, homework for this weekend/submit responses on november 19th: unplug! Homework for this week: 30-minute collection of excerpts from tv news reports from this event, reading & vodcast, study notes about these elements for tutorial discussion. Increasing surveillance: watch each other more & more all the time, others discussed: constant communication, constant information, lack of silence, introduction of the internet. Counter trends: anti-globalization & a return to the local, g20, aboriginal autonomy, rise in fundamentalists movements & xenophobia (fear of foreign others, the occupy movement & other non-traditional social justice causes, environmental movements. Live television: little resistance to our loss of privacy, surveillance is seen as necessity for modern life. News: news is a commodity, expensive to gather & distribute & produce, must produce & audience that can be sold to advertisers, programming & genre. Important that when liveness happens, these structures are broken.
