My January '06 Media Transmissions column is up over at the Far Sector web-zine right now. My topic this month is the 2005 "slump" at the box office. The column is called Diagnosing Hollywood; 2005: The Year of the Movie Slump.
Here's an Excerpt:
It’s sort of ironic. After years as a dirty cousin to cinema, television is coming into its own as a valid art form, primarily because the advent of cable has splintered network viewership, permitting niche dramas and comedies to flourish where once they would have been cancelled out of the chute, or never made it past the pilot stage. Contrarily, movies today feel more and more 'mass produced' in an industrial process (and are therefore less satisfying…) as desperate studios attempt to grasp ever wider audiences. And the wider the audience, the less individual—and the less challenging—the movie...
So head on over to Far Sector and check out the rest if you get a chance...
Here's an Excerpt:
It’s sort of ironic. After years as a dirty cousin to cinema, television is coming into its own as a valid art form, primarily because the advent of cable has splintered network viewership, permitting niche dramas and comedies to flourish where once they would have been cancelled out of the chute, or never made it past the pilot stage. Contrarily, movies today feel more and more 'mass produced' in an industrial process (and are therefore less satisfying…) as desperate studios attempt to grasp ever wider audiences. And the wider the audience, the less individual—and the less challenging—the movie...
So head on over to Far Sector and check out the rest if you get a chance...
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