COM 101 Lecture 6: Chapter 6 notes
16 Jun 2016
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The television and film industries have subsumed each other as content- Synergy = an interaction that produces a combined effect greater than the sum of separate effects: nbc/universal, disney/abc, fox television/20th century fox. I love lucy moved television away from live shows and nearer to the conventions of hollywood productions (use 3 cameras to film) Modern mockumentary = sets a show like modern family apart from many sitcoms for the way they have the characters occasional talk/narrate to the camera as if it were a documentary. Adolph zukor = innovative creator of paramount (originally called: famous. The major movie companies now had to compete for screen time in movie houses. Television stalled in the early 1940s when the nation"s resources were consumed by wwii: when the war ended many people were buying tvs no matter the cost. Federal communications act of 1934 = revision of the federal radio act of 1927 to include the regulation of television.
