Nick Couldry: Liveness Reality and the Mediated Habitus Liveness should be interpreted as a development within media history as a whole. . . . At the base, the need to connect oneself, with others, to the world’s events, is central… Continue Reading
# Nichols, Bill. Introduction to Documentary Film. Bloomington & Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 2010, pp.179-194 The participatory mode has antecedents in other media and disciplines Doc filmmakers also go into the field, they, too, live among others and speak about… Continue Reading
Jerome Bourdon: Live television is still alive In television theories, the current academic trend is to reduce the importance of live broadcasting – arguing that the evolution towards ‘narrowcasting’ and ‘fragmented broadcasting’ calls for the end of global analyses of… Continue Reading
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