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Square Eyes : TV Cultures | Alannah's TV Cultures Blog | Page 2

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Square Eyes : TV Cultures. Alannah's TV Cultures Blog. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Newer posts →. A Matter of Taste: Bellafante’s guide to not watching Game of Thrones. September 5, 2012. Before today’s screening, I had never seen. Is it a drama? Safe to say, it’s pretty ‘out there’ and has caused a bit of debate amongst audiences, critics and fans. Watch the show they would be of low cultural distinction and bad taste. So, does Bellafante generally think women. I understand that ...

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SHOWCASE POST: Why we love Reality TV | Me and TV

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About Me…. and TV. Channelling in to Television Cultures. SHOWCASE POST: Why we love Reality TV. October 8, 2012. There is a page on Wikipedia literally called ‘List of reality television programs’ that tries to list all reality TV shows ever aired. Check it out here. While it DOES state that the list is incomplete, how could a project like this ever even come close to be being finished? There’s something about it that draws us to it. Perhaps it is what I discussed in my post last week. With shows like t...

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Week Four Reflections | BEHINDTHESCENES.

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8230; thoughts on all things television. Week Five Reflections →. August 16, 2012. Chosen Webisode: Dexter Early Cuts: Alex Timmons. Content vs. Promotion. Max Dawson writes that we must evaluate the perception that digital shorts reflect “the television industry’s desire to give web viewers what they want” against its prominence as “television promotion”. Where does. Stand along such a continuum? From a content perspective,. Explores a hyperdiegesis operating in the. Canon The first series of. Seems a p...

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October | 2012 | BEHINDTHESCENES.

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8230; thoughts on all things television. Monthly Archives: October 2012. Showcase #2: Narrative Complexity and the Active Audience. October 11, 2012. 8220;While fan cultures have long demonstrated intense engagement in storyworlds, policing backstory consistency, character unity, and internal logic in programs like Star Trek and Dr. Who, contemporary programs focus this detailed dissection onto complex questions of plot and events in … Continue reading →. Showcase #1: Transmedia Trends and Hypermediacy.

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Week Eight Reflections | BEHINDTHESCENES.

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8230; thoughts on all things television. Week Nine Reflections →. September 19, 2012. 8220;If you argue that shows like Lost, The Sopranos, and The Wire are indebted to the soap opera genre, it’s pretty easy to rebut that these programs are more evolved than daytime the aesthetic criteria that celebrate primetime serials will judge soap operas as cro magnon relatives at best, and thus worthy of evolutionary extinction! 8221; – Jason Mittell. And the fantasy (. 8220;So what are the shared features? Re-pac...

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Week Seven Reflections | BEHINDTHESCENES.

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8230; thoughts on all things television. Week Eight Reflections →. September 13, 2012. There is a degree of self-consciousness in the mode of plotting… in the awareness that viewers watch complex programs in part to see “how will they do it? 8221;… The operational aesthetic is heightened in spectacular moments within narratively complex programs, specific sequences or episodes that we might consider akin to special effects.” – Jason Mittell. One such complex narrative anamoly is the. Address never made p...

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September | 2012 | BEHINDTHESCENES.

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8230; thoughts on all things television. Monthly Archives: September 2012. September 23, 2012. The first RMIT course reading I was ever assigned was a chapter from ‘The Media Student’s Book’ entitled Approaching Media Texts. Along one page’s margins was the URL for a YouTube video that supposedly exemplified the indexical link between “memory, longing … Continue reading →. September 19, 2012. September 13, 2012. September 5, 2012. Showcase #2: Narrative Complexity and the Active Audience.

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Quality TV – It’s Maddening | Me and TV

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About Me…. and TV. Channelling in to Television Cultures. Quality TV – It’s Maddening. September 25, 2012. Even after all these weeks I am still quite uncertain as to what constitutes ‘quality’ television. Part of it, I think, is definitely brand association particularly in regards to HBO and their almost. Of ‘quality’. Other shows like Mad Men that are not affiliated with HBO can be seen to be quality because of their likeness to other HBO dramas. Ability to represent difficult/adult/taboo subjects.

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Reality TV, babies, and other things. | Me and TV

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About Me…. and TV. Channelling in to Television Cultures. Reality TV, babies, and other things. September 29, 2012. Annette Hill describes reality TV as ‘located in border territories, between information and entertainment, documentary and drama’ (pg. 2). She also mentions that it can be referred to as ‘popular factual television’, which I find interesting, as clearly, reality TV does not. Depict facts. Or perhaps it does depict fact, but only in portions small enough to cloud the. Footage from surveilla...