MEDIAST 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Joss Whedon, Auteur Theory, Techtv
11 Mar 2017
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Debate of timeshift and suggest collective social and tech practice tv fragment plurality of privatised and consumer led viewing activities. Rise of dvd culture placeshifting by being viewable on pc and mobile device. Task of masculinised tv critic is to reinstate separation from tv engulfing viewers and construct their reality. Cinematic qualities of image composition (tv indebted to theater stage of drama) Argues leakiness argument applies particularly to computer tech. Tv no suddenly transmedial but begun to interact and intersect fully with specific digital media (leaking into other forms of media) Dvd significant in relation to textual conversion (from moments within flow to isolated objects) and continue the pattern. Authorship should be dealt with as function of discourse. All texts authored but not viewed authorship equally. Tv author function limited to tv drama (seen as serious) Not all shows equal author (soap operas not many know author) Not all tv textually equal (quality tv vs flow of tv)
