FAMST 101C Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mise-En-Scène, Hire Purchase, Netflix
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Show demonstrated the commercial viability of early tv programming. Berle appeared in a crudely mocking style of drag. Show suffered when your show of shows debuted two years later. Mostly due to its parodic and self-reflexive nature. Used a younger cast and appealed to younger audiences. Tv industry execs initially asked what tv should be and what it is as an art. Tv was different than the movies because it could convey simultaneous but distant images to a large audience. Live tv removed the factors of time and distance from audience tant. Live tv removed the factors of time and distance from audience consciousness. Bridges the gap and unites the individual at home with the event afar. Viewers could be in two places at once through live tv. Tv critics suggested that movie medium had a different ideology than tv. Movies had an ideology of the past, since film couldn"t be live.
