The way that people see films, television, and other screen-based content has changed dramatically over the last century. Yet sometimes, the new is deeply informed by the history of the moving image, and is perhaps not quite as new as advocates would like you to believe.
Is the screen always new? Write an essay examine a contemporary screen platform, such as:
The multiplex cinema
Streaming video on demand
YouTube
Piracy and informal distribution
Digital broadcast television
VR
IMAX
Screen and media museums/galleries
4D
Smart phones
Or other forms of exhibition discussed in class
You will historicise and contextualise this form of exhibition, and mount an argument as to how new this form truly is. You will draw on peer reviewed research to do so.
Note: You are basically creating the arguments for wether ONE of these certain type of screen platforms is “new” or perhaps there have been representations of it earlier in history. You can obviously talki about more than one IF they are related (in reference to one another).
Questions Example: Whilst early campaigns against piracy and informal distributions remained prominent at the dawn of digital video and the internet leeding us to believe the phenomenon only existed as of the last 30 years, early historical examples show not only that it existed earlier with film but that the concept of piracy and distribution predates the moving image all together.
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