“It’s A Musical, the kind in which characters burst into song and dance without warning, in which extras spontaneously transform into backup dancers, in which characters treat sets not as locations for action, but as props.”
Category: media
This Was The First TV Show To Use The Internet As A Plot Point
“Even as dial-up Internet connections went mainstream, television representations of the web lagged. Computers appeared on television mostly as props, boxy monitors sitting dark on desks. The arrival of Internet represented a huge cultural shift, but it was barely a plot point in the 1990s—with some exceptions.”
US Television Wakes Up To Growing Latino Audience With New Options
“Channels such as newly launched El Rey are targeting a young demographic that wants to see its bilingual and multicultural world reflected on screen.”
Jerry Lewis The Auteur
“The love-fest for Lewis at Moving Image this Tuesday, like the one at the 92nd Street Y in 2012, had a remarkably young audience of a new generation of New York cinephiles … Lewis has become a central artistic reference point for the world of young cinema, and his interviewer on Tuesday night suggested why. That interviewer was none other than Martin Scorsese.”
Does Today’s Great TV Rival The Best Novels Of Yesterday?
Like novels, box sets require an investment of time, attention and emotional energy. They are complex and subtle enough to repay rewatching – in the same way as good books repay re-reading. Also, some of them star Sean Bean in bearskins and leather, which is a plus even the greatest bookworm cannot deny.
Why These Sitcom Kisses Were Revolutionary Acts
“Sitcom parents have engaged in public displays of affection on primetime for as long as there have been family sitcoms, after all. But for those of us who grew up with parents born and raised in Asia – and, based on a 2012 Pew survey, that’s a growing number of us – these [particular] lip-lock moments are mind-blowing. Because not only have we rarely seen Asian American parents kiss on TV, many of us have never seen them do it in real life either.”
How Kickstarter Is Changing How (What) Movies Get Made
“While there’s a pretty diverse range of voices, the unifying factor we’re finding is that all these filmmakers have an independent spirit – these are directors who are making work in their own way, and always have. There’s also a real desire to engage with the audience.”
Advertising – Television’s Original Sin
“The question of how television fits together with advertising – and whether we should resist that relationship or embrace it – has haunted the medium since its origins. … When people called TV shows garbage, which they did all the time, until recently, commercialism was at the heart of the complaint. Even great TV could never be good art, because it was tainted by definition. It was there to sell.”
Female-Driven Movies Are Big Box Office. So What’s The Problem?
Female-driven movies make money. In an era when movies are beset by competition from quality television, video games and alternative entertainment, the industry can’t afford to be biased.
What Man-Against-The-Elements Movies Miss About Death And Dying
“In the midst of the film’s expensively produced spectacle, the gradual loss of a will to live – a subjective experience by nature – resists being rendered onscreen. … There’s no villain, no decisive action, and not much argument – just terrible lassitude and growing mental incapacity.”