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-cheap theaters ~ cost 5 cents
-appealed to immigrants b/c inexpensive and silent (tech didnt exist yet) |
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-local theaters owned by studios so they had to play their stuff
-if want a good movie, have to buy these 10 movies too
-blockbuster: name comes from craziness in town it produces when it comes out and made enough money to make up for loss of other shitty 10 movies |
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| -to ensure an audience due to familiarity |
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| decline in movie revenues |
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1.television hurt movies ~ don have to leave house, no $ etc
2.economic growth following WWII ~ used money to buy tangible goods
3.decrease in marriage age ~ movies are a "dating" thing, marriage is commitment
4.return of WWII soldiers ~ gone for so long, just wanted sex (led to baby boom) |
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-widescreen
-better sound
-darker and more intense stories
-movies give dark, sexual stories that TV cant ~ eventually TV would catch up to go more sexual (slippery slope) |
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| portrayal of history in films |
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-opinion based question
-how some people get some info |
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-newsreels: tiny documentaries in theater before actual movie started (1900s)
-travelogues: when film maker lives and documents in a culture then makes documentary on it (target=elderly)
-cinema verite: all you do is sit back and watch things unfold in front of your camera
-propaganda: WWII ~ why we fight |
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| -Several media subsidiaries under one corporate umbrella |
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company sponsored programming
-awkward stops in TV to talk about product
-company would pay for broadcast of TV show
-prob: having 1 sponsor means your committed
NBC
-Sernoff and Weaver wanted to get rid of 1 sponsor
-increased length of program ~ so sponsors couldnt afford it
-spot ad created ~ what we have today
-product placement |
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-planting contestants into their show
-people shocked ~ led to cynicism of the media
-TV deemed "vast wasteland"
-moved to L.A. |
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-TV gives info and explanations quick (9/11, war scenes etc)
-gives idea of a collective nation |
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-helped stop Network Supremacy (when networks ruled TV and content and did whatever they wanted)
-gave them more competition
-network supremacy declined in 70s and 80s |
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-VHS won b/c it could hold more content
-VHS had lower quality but 2 hr capacity
-Beta had higher quality but 1.5 hr capacity |
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Deficit Financing: Selling a show for less than it costs with the hopes of making the money in syndication (reruns)
Evergreens: Popular long running syndicates – Andy Griffith, I Love Lucy, Saved by the Bell, Full House
Fringe Time:
-Immediately before the prime time schedule
-Usually put a popular rerun in this slot |
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| Development of Cable (and networks) |
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-put antennas on mountains and ran cables don to villages/towns
-50s and 60s
-developed by television and appliance stores
-hundreds of channels with no interference
CNN
-Cable News Network
-most powerful ~ Persian Gulf War
-24 hour new cycle
MTV
-music videos
-targeted impressionable youth
HBO
-can show sex/violence b/c you have to pay for service
-has movies, too |
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-Rupert Murdoch in 1953
-helped launch FOX network
-became an entire TV channel |
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| Broadcasting vs Narrowcasting |
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Broadcasting
-Content is targeted towards as large a group as possible
-Provides a large, diverse audience to advertisers
Narrowcasting
-Content is specialized and targeted towards small, specific audiences
-Provides a small but dedicated audience to advertisers |
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-combo of white and black music
-radio turned to rock and roll b/c it was cheap and it appealed to large, diverse young audience
-rock and roll considered impure and often banned or protested against |
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-re-record rock and roll songs using clean-cut white males (Pat Boone)
-turn rock and roll and R&B songs into country and pop songs |
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| -70s ~ religious institutions could no longer fight the appeal of rock, so they adapted their own |
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Pre-Vietnam
-pro-America and pro-war songs
Vietnam
-against war
Post-Vietnam
-have combo of both or artist doesnt touch it |
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-have the same roots
-didnt worry about vocal quality or melody, but the message it sent
-voice of the people
-Folk often linked with rebellion and drug use |
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| Probs facing music industry |
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Piracy
-illegal uploading and downloading of music from the internet
-file-sharing
-tend to go after uploaders
Counterfeiting
-unauthorized duplication of CD and packaging
-very common in NYC and Asia
Bootlegging
-unauthorized recording of a live performance or studio recording
-very common with movies also |
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-50s
-record companies paying DJs to play certain songs
-payola became illegal
-still occurs in other forms today |
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| history of music and recording |
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Leon Scott de Martinville
-developed basics of sound recording using a needle and grooves but couldnt play sound back
Thomas Edison
-phonograph in 1877
-switched to metal and could play sound back
Emile Berliner
-created Gamaphone which played records
-made music popular!
Audio Tape
-invented by German engineers but confiscated by Americans after WWII
Digital Music
-CDs
-MP3s
-Thomas Stolkholm used losers and computer pulses to produce sounds |
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-Reginald Fessenden of G.E.
-Xmas Eve on boat |
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-1910
-wrote radio air wave laws
-required all ships traveling more than 200 miles offshore and with ppl to have a wireless transmitter |
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-Titanic sunk
-required all radio transmitters to be licensed
-hoped to reduce clutter on airwaves |
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