RTF 321C Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Ugly Betty, David Chase, Mockumentary
5 Dec 2018
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Continued reworking of the sitcom in content and form. Reworking the family according to class, race, gender, sexuality, and more. Frequent critique of oppressiveness of traditional familial structures e. g. weeds. Rise and proliferation of reality or unscripted television. Initially mainly on broadcast (e. g. david lynch & twin peaks) Then primarily on cable, especially hbo initially (e. g. david chase & the sopranos) Tell stories and develop characters across multiple platforms (e. g. buffy) Think about roots of this with superman! (see shimpach reading) Growth in global formatting adapting and localizing programming. Formats (the idea of the show) are both global and national. The us imposes its ideology and its values on the rest of the world through its media products.
