John Ellis on Peter Wollen Peter Wollen Curator's Note On 17 October 1984, UK Channel 4’s monthly cinema programme Visions showed this ten minute visual essay by Peter Wollen. His brief was to present a personal view of the month’s film releases, mad ...
Bringing Old Equipment Back to Life Entertainment Industries Production and Narratives; BBC; technology Curator's Note How did TV get made in the analogue era? Now that huge amounts of archival TV have been digitized, this has become an urgent questi ...
I agree that taxonomies are relatively useless in this area. But there are some basic differences between Reality TV and Documentary approaches to the practices you outline so succinctly. Reality TV increasingly involves scripting to a format: see David G ...
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