John Ellis on Peter Wollen Peter Wollen 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, made up of a montage of ...
Bringing Old Equipment Back to Life Entertainment Industries Production and Narratives; BBC; technology How did TV get made in the analogue era? Now that huge amounts of archival TV have been digitized, this has become an urgent question. There’s only so ...
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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