Stephanie Marriott book chapter: Time and the Live Event If it is true that much of ‘live’ television is not truly or fully live, then it is equally true that the majority of television programmes are not live at all.… Continue Reading →

Robert Vianello: The Power Politics of Live Television The notion of “live” has a multiple function in thinkning about television, although it is usually assumed to be self-evident and unproblematical. It is associated with television as electronic technology; as a… Continue Reading →

Jane Feuer book chapter: The Concept of Live Television Not much has been written on the aesthetics of television. One of the reasons for this becomes obvious as one sets out to correct this lack: no one is entirely sure… Continue Reading →

Paddy Scannell book chapter: The Meaning of Live The living moment lives and dies, comes and goes in the phenomenal now of concern. To speak is to act; to act is to articulate. Each is to be managed and both… Continue Reading →

Our experience of television liveness is linked to our encounter with “unscripted” affective moments, when words fail and something else breaks through: gasps, pauses, silences etc. Television forms reluctant alliances with such “authentic” somatic acts; they can captivate viewers, but… Continue Reading →

Poetic mode engagement with form “as much as or more than with social actors” (Nichols, 2010:162) association and pattern ~ involving temporal rhythm & juxtaposition fragmented, subjective impression social actors are not complex – arranged like any other object alternative… Continue Reading →

You heard me Kaplan  Womens independent film has been broad; wide variety of styles and genres – realism to animation, non-narrative abstract film to fiction film, a broad range of subjects, and a wide range of ideological perspectives Womens cinema… Continue Reading →

– Roff, Jeffery. “An Ethnographic Surrealist Film: Luis Buñuel’s Land without Bread.” Visual Anthropology Review, 14, no.1 (Spring/Summer 1998), 45-57. Also available at  Documentary is supposed to be a serious, even educational, genre. It prompts sincere readings. Still today many… Continue Reading →

Chapter 7 ‘Sound in the Cinema’ (from ‘The Powers of Sound’ to ‘An Abundance of Choices’), pages 266 – 298 Chapter 7 in FILM ART discusses sound in the cinema. Sound is a powerful film technique that engages a distinct… Continue Reading →

Chapter 2: The significance of Film Form Chapter 2 in FILM ART discusses the endless choices a filmmaker has regarding the form of their film. It discusses that form, the overall set of relationships among a films parts, is of… Continue Reading →