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Question: Is television essentially different to film? Refer to any two television episodes, at least one of which must have been screened on the module.
With regards to my essay, go on the historical spectrum of television. Mention the history of television and how it came about. Show how there is no distinctive difference between the two because of streaming services such a Netflix. because You are now able to watch both on streaming platforms. Feel free to put this in your own way. (as I’m not sure if this is a good argument)
The information below must be used in my essay in terms of referencing and the episodes which you are meant to use to argue my point.
Use episodes from the list below (2):
Viewing: I Love Lucy (Season 1, Episode 1 [1951]: “The Girls Want To Go To The Nightclub”)
Friends (Season 2, Episode 12 [1996]: “The One With The Lesbian Wedding”)
Tuca and Bertie (Season 1, Episode 1 [2019]: “The Sugar Bowl”).
Mad Men, pilot (2007, AMC / Lionsgate Television, USA)
The Sopranos “Second Opinion” (Season 3, Episode 7)
Use some of the academic sources in my paper below but you are free to use one or two of your own also which must be reputable academic sources and not websites.
Reading: Noel Carroll (2003) ‘TV and Film: A Philosophical Perspective’, Engaging the Moving Image, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 265-280.
Bignell, J. (2013) ‘Television Texts and Narratives’, in An introduction to television studies. 3rd ed London: Routledge. pp. 93–123.
Corner, J. (1999) ‘Image’, in Critical Ideas in Television Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 24–37.
Reading: Thibault, G. (2015) Streaming: A Media Hydrography of Televisual Flows. VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture. [Online] 4 (7), 110-119. Online:
John Thornton Caldwell (2003) ‘Second Shift Media Aesthetics: Programming, Interactivity and User Flows’, in J.T. Caldwell & A. Everett (eds.) New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality. London; New York: Routledge, 127-144.
Caldwell, J. (2004) ‘Convergence Television: Aggregating Form and Repurposing Content in the Culture of Conglomeration’, in Lynn Spigel & Jan Olsson (eds.) Television after TV: Essays on a Medium in Transition. Durham: Duke University Press.
Johnson, C. (2019) Online television. London: Routledge.
Johnson, C. (2007) Tele‐Branding in TVIII. New Review of Film and Television Studies. 5 (1), 5–24.
Miller, T. (2001) Revising Screen Studies. Television & New Media. 2 (2), 91–9
