Okay, I can not help it: P. Here is a unique, fantastic "In general" a remarkable material, which is undoubtedly Bożyk Jurek, the author of timeless hits such as "Teeth in the ass " or "Ballad of a rusty eye." Such things only in Internet TV;)
I once again about the same. In this note I want to address the phenomenon of TV series produced by HBO , because - as you read - they contain content, what TV viewers are not dreaming. O " Six Feet Under " I'll probably have a separate post: P
In the last decade the popularity of Home Box Office has increased mainly due to the creation of intelligent programming policy, while entertaining drama series consisting generally of a series of hourly episodes kilkunastoodcinkowych . When a show is finished, its airtime immediately jumping again, creating a sequence. Many of them broke the rules of genre, and closed tightly and the dramaturgy of the story it rather closer for feature films. Their worldwide popularity was ensured by the fact that HBO decided to sell outside the U.S. issuing licenses for their series to other stations.
trend began in 1997 series, which is set to work in prison, " Oz" (which was a poor copy of the famous Prison Break). After two years, the station joined the repertoire of ironic saga of the mafia " Sopranos" (2001-2007), which has gained recognition both worldwide audience and critics. Then among the major production of this type should be mentioned: a revolutionary " Six Feet Under " (2001-2005), antywestern " Deadwood" (2004-2006), "Big Love " about a Mormon family (which is only heard ), underestimated in Poland " Carnivale" (2003-2005) and super-overrated " Rome" (2005-2007). Now, in my opinion, for the next series on the intellectual and cultural level of "Six Feet Under" and "Carnivale", can be considered "pure Blood "]. Equally shocking series epatowaniem sex and violence, as intense narration polisemiczną content and weight issues to be taken in the story. Actually, the former properties were just a cover for those in the other group.
analysis sensitive topics, which were subject of previous HBO dramatic series carried out the Michael Schimanovsky. In his article, he poses the thesis that each successive series used by the predecessor's foundation lies in the use of vulgar language and characters, portraying violence, eroticism and death. Each had some added value - its "leading idea", an issue explored in this particular production - and together they made up a "coherent narrative about the life." The author even suggests that this narrative is consistent in the pronunciation of several TV series broadcast on one station may be the equivalent of one program to enable public debate on socially relevant topics, especially about death in the modern world. (Because HBO does not have "the talk show"). The first program, which is a cool, calm manner, "invited Death to the living room "was" Six Feet Under. "In addition to the death of another discussion raised the issues such as homosexuality, and advancing oligarchizację all sectors of the economy in the era of globalization and centralization of capital.
" Rome "carried with it a wealth of possible interpretations in the context of contemporary political situation in the U.S.: Julius Caesar could be interpreted as a figure representing George W. Bush received positively or negatively, depending on political preferences. In a way, "Rome" is also revealed unpleasant truths about human nature and forced viewers to face in them. Public showing gladiatorial combat, sexual obsession Romans, their aggression and bloodlust reminded viewers eagerly watching the series of Eros and Thanatos instincts, which, though euthanised, are present in their nature. Viewers "Rome" peeping from a safe position agony of gladiators were in the same situation, receiving as a direct spectators of these events who sit on benches near the Colosseum. even more vulnerable to interpretations of current policy was "Deadwood." Action presented the process of "civilizing" the closed society in which the beginning was ruled just the right fist. This largely hovered around the issues the process of creating social structures, the introduction of a perfect social order, posed questions about the acceptable limits of individual freedom on the one hand (see: Republicans), and interference with social organization in the life of the individual on the other (see Democrats). Plus, if someone does not like men in the Clint Eastwood type, like me, will find plenty of scenes ridiculing him.
The least connected with reality, "Carnivale" has introduced a rational and a bored twenty-first century world of aesthetics for the return of carnival, in which everything is possible, not by the achievements of science and reason, but strength of spirit. "Carnivale," presented the fate of the traveling circus troupe. As you might guess after this brief description, has the same form more like mythical creatures, than ordinary people. One of the main characters was a healer who could even physically the dead back to life. Pages dilemmas faced by the characters were very strongly antagonized. Pronunciation of the whole series is steeped in Manichean worldview - through adventures of heroes talked about the ongoing struggle between good and constantly (life / Ben as a healer) and evil (death / upostaciowionym as Justin Crowe) and a constant need to make moral choices between them. Serial boldly reminds audiences of the era of consumerism irrevocable moral obligations incumbent on them for being human. Life and death are shown in the "Carnivale" as equivalent, as two sides of the same coin. Even in cinema audiences can not often see such ennoblement and also the suppression of death I wanted to add that besides all the mentioned series, and "Pure Blood" (with the exception of transparent "Six Feet Under ground ") connects the rear of shares in the mythologized, iconic and exciting audience realities. Wild settlement in the nineteenth century (using the myth of the Pioneers), the rising empire Roman mob in the environment (grimacing picture of the clan of the mafia "Godfather"), the Middle East during the Great Depression, and finally a mysterious, wild Louisiana. To properly understand the significance of the series, you should pay attention to other pieces of culture (high and popular), which wykreowały functioning in contemporary American society, images of historical and geographical regions.
Recently I found on the web for interesting spot. It concerned the elections, but do not worry, I'm not going to move Polish Theme policy. I appreciate the peace of mind, and although the potential number of comments on this, certainly controversial entry, working on my imagination, but "thank you but no."
Anyway, the movie, I'm talking about Eddie Izzard presented , British comedian, denouncing for your favorite political party. Apparently it is not surprising, if not for the fact that I have met with difficulty idol. From the YouTube screen saying to me, elegant man in a suit, without exaggerated gestures and role-play. Were it not for a signature in your life I would not have guessed it was him.
not paying much attention to the contents statements comedian, I began to wonder about why Eddie could not just be Eddie, a charming transvestite in high heels shoes, and sensual make-up and typical for him pantomime. Sure, the answer is trivial, but anyway a little bit sad that public television continues to be first of all look so as not to stand out in the crowd. It is known that Eddie had supported Labor in the shining shoes on high heels, probably just to Gave lots of trouble (with us to eat it.) But does not the world be happier if we could be more fool on television? : D
And for dessert, the famous sketch about the "Death Star Canteen."
Lest there be, it is not advertising. I do not work (yet, unfortunately: P) for HBO Poland. But somehow I can not help, not to put the station as a model program. Read a themselves about the impact that HBO had the image of television in general. In the last scrap of history, I described a watershed moment broadcastingu, or to start broadcasting via satellite. Let's see what happened next ...
This innovative method has proved extremely effective, so HBO will soon attracted a full monopoly on the market. The first competitive cable television station was WTCG Ted Turner (soon to be renamed WTBS ). comparison of these two stations have shown an essential feature of distinctive from other channels of HBO, free television and cable. Well, the main incentive for viewers WTCG would be that the TV is completely maintained with ad revenue, so that the cable TV subscribers do not have to pay extra special for watching this program. HBO and was financed from the additional fee from the viewers interested in their offer. This has very important implications: first
HBO First program had to be always the most interesting, as access to it was connected with a direct financial cost to the customer target, which, if programs have a similar level, could choose a station and there is no need to pay . second Secondly, such a policy had the advantage of the station that deprived viewers of dubious pleasure of watching a similar dose of ads and other content: this has gained the status of the HBO television "exclusive", the perception and the way you view them more like a visit to the cinema, than to join in the stream of media other television stations. third Thirdly, the lack of TV ads meant no restrictions on the part of producers, who often have an impact on decisions of the station program, because they did not want to broadcast an advertisement of their product was in the immediate vicinity of the controversial program, or excitation unambiguously bad emotions. Moreover, as the pay-TV, HBO, subject to less regulations on acceptable content in the program than the public stations.
At the beginning of its operation range of extra-pay station was very limited, but HBO failed to win in 1977 lawsuits with the Federal Communications Commitee, resulting in the restrictions were lifted, the benefit of all cable television station. These factors allowed the introduction of Home Box Office to schedule the position of moving sensitive social issues, containing a bold erotic scenes, scenes of violence or profane certain social holiness, or controversial for other reasons, to which other stations can not afford. Despite this, currently in the U.S. channel HBO, the basic principle of holding up to twenty hours of programs broadcast not marked by the Motion Picture Assosiation of America as being suitable only for adults, or an "R" (prohibited for people under 17 years of age without adult supervision) and time limit does not apply to programs labeled as "PG-13 (containing content that may be inappropriate for children under 13 years of age)
In subsequent years, HBO is not ceased to be an innovator and industry leader in terms of both technical and merits. For the achievements of the company, which changed the face of television, you must certainly include the production in 1983, The Terry Fox Story "- the first film made to order pay-TV. In 1990 he began to also produce movies and series for television stations and other public paid. In 1986, HBO introduced the first video encoding, to prevent illegal users, in 1991 became the first pay-TV network, offering a package of channels (the multiplex), which include, among others HBO2, HBO Comedy, HBO Family, Cinemax, and a group of channels. In 1993, the first station in the world has given the program using digital transmission.
HBO was also a pioneer in the financing of various social events, including sponsored rock concerts. The famous have also become innovative advertising campaigns (including the best in my opinion slogan " It's not TV, it's HBO "), which introduces HBO, including use of guerrilla marketing, thus strengthening its presence in the social space, becoming a permanent part of pop culture.
It is certainly not the latest post on HBO on our blog, so stay tuned: P
Brendan Perry, the leader nieodżałowanego absolutely iconic Dead Can Dance recorded just the second solo album Fri 'Ark'. In this otherwise great album is the song 'Inferno', which tells the o. ..
Anyway ... what I'll write. Remains for me to vote for the unique Australian composer.
'I watch the TV, it is my world Takes my mind Beyond These Walls The more I see the less I care For all the people out there
In my room, I see war In my room, love In my room, visions from hell In my room, joy
I like to watch as the newsreel Unfolds I like to watch from behind glass walls The more I see the less I care For all the people down there
In my room, I see war In my room, love In my room, visions from hell In my room, joy
I may be alone inside to see you* Memories are born of fire to see you* I can’t make it love and I can’t ever sombre* Memories fall out of desires*
I may be long so I maybe a reason* Take it away from hurt and make it a hero* I can’t make it love and I can’t ever sombre* Memories fall out of desires*
Sometimes I just don’t feel myself at all Sometimes I don’t feel anything at all
O tym, że telewizja może swobodnie manipulować image, information, emotions and ultimately consumers, we all know. In one of the earlier notes Berry she mentioned a movie Wag the Dog, where the media in order to save the honor of U.S. President distract the audience from the scandal by creating a fictitious image of the war. As claimed by German philosopher Wolfgang Welsch , electronic media can deform the image, creating the effect of "unreal reality". A few days ago marked the 35th anniversary of the end of the war in Vietnam. (30 April 1975), so it's important in this context discuss the role that media played in the war in Indochina. This conflict is (so far) the largest military and moral defeat in U.S. history. Contributed to a large extent the presence of media at the front, returning a direct relationship with the fighting and demonstrating (often in a tendentious and biased) events in Vietnam. Americans could see at the dinner table with my own eyes massive losses among American soldiers at the minimal achievements of the military and the enormous expenditure on used weapons during the conflict. This contributed directly to the mass occurrences of anti-war movements in the U.S., which entailed a gradual withdrawal of Americans from Indochina. It is not sensitive or aware of the socio-political boycott led to military action, but that's television, with its unreal represented reality. Even after the conflict were raised voices that the media distorted the true picture of the communist offensive, falsifying the facts and presenting a biased impression of stressing defeat the Americans and their Vietnamese allies. Among the critics included, in particular the military and politicians, not capable of hide the disappointment anti-war rhetoric of the press and television. Last reviewing wykop.pl I found an article about the famous "photograph, which lost the war" . It became her photo taken Feb. 1, 1968 year in Saigon by a journalist with The Associated Press Eddie Adams. It presents a South Vietnamese police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan killing a captured Viet Cong officer with a revolver shot in the head. The photo was clearly interpreted - that is drawn into a war machine, devoid of humane feelings cop kills unarmed man. In a further part of the article the author explains what is really seen in the infamous photographs. Two days earlier - January 30, 1968 Viet Cong with the regular army of North Vietnam's Tet Offensive conducted, whose main aim was the eradication of all "traitors," or people cooperating with the Americans. First of all, the South Vietnamese Army soldiers and police officers and their families. If you know these facts, the pronunciation changed photography forever. At the end, as usual, something nice and intertextual. This time the video segment Across The Universe with a piece of Strawberry Fields Forever Beatles . my opinion, personal, subjective, etc. etc. This is probably the most original and blunt metaphor for the war expressed through song. Feel free to watch and challenge my opinion: D
We also love the show's slip. Below, my personal favorite - the first season of "Desperate Housewives ." It is worth seeing, even if it is not a fan of the series, and is to be any idea about it. If kojarzycie role Marcia Cross , for ease I might add, that Bree, pronounced Ruda, then you can feel the pleasant surprise;). And you can always have a laugh with Eva Longoria Parker , who apparently needed the most doubles. More bloopersów from other series can be found here .
Let me also add that the show can be viewed on the web for free. Simply visit this page , or visit YouTube.
The classes are often touched upon issues related the differences between public television programming, the major commercial stations in Poland (read TVN and Polsat ). They give no doubt a large room to maneuver when it comes to the politicization, the advantage of advertising on the content, unreliability of feature films (TVN), poor technical quality (TVP) or cultural (Polsat). I know that many moviegoers from our year as a result of such a repertoire in all of the institutions of home TV is not being used. But for these three channels and their subsidiaries tele-world does not end. The price of three or four tickets to a movie can get Monthly access to professional movie channels, educational guidance, to choose the color, ie. Cable TV
In this post I'd like a bit to bring the story of the creation of satellite / cable TV (and because my thesis on the occasion stressed the important role played in the development of television station HBO : P). Drew up the following information pursuant to Article The Evolution of the Cables-Satellite Distribution System by Dr. Patrick Parsons . I think it will be useful in the further course of our study. At the beginning I would are explained, one, because I understand it took some time: Given a system of broadcasting television broadcast, called. "Satellites" (eg Cyfrowy Polsat) are no different from "kablówek" because in both cases, the message which comes to us comes from a satellite. Only that "no cable" convert this signal at their centers, where they have their satellite dishes and dosyłają it to us for cable homes, and at "satellite" pick up the signal our personal balcony "plate."
and 2001 can no man crew did not reach Saturn to explore a monolith, and in 2010 we do not have two suns, but that is another prophecy of Mr. Arthur C. Clarke, an engineer and has proved to be a writer. Clark described in 1945 his idea to put in orbit Earth three space stations. Transmitted signal of them could cover the whole of the Earth (as opposed to the normal signals from television masts.) Twelve years later the conquest of space began to take real shape, when the Russians fired into the sky Sputnik I. The U.S. government undertook similar measures For its part, and appointed a special government committees dealing with space exploration, and send into orbit a device that enables transmission of information, the Earth-Earth via satellite. The first commercial communications satellite was Early Bird, owned by Hughes Aircraft Corp. - established in 1963. The new "space" technique opened up extraordinary opportunities for broadcasters, primarily by speeding up transmission time. The problem, however, was the high price of satellite dishes, which stations to broadcast "from space", would have to buy. Also recipient of such a transfer would have to obtain a special receiving antenna. Major American television networks, which had a new, nationwide television network masts were not willing to expose himself to such costs. In the '60s and early 70th U.S. beer market has been three nationwide television stations: ABC , CBS and NBC . These were typical of stations' broadcastingowe ", also in the sense that the programming it to match the tastes of the widest possible audience. Until now, these networks have the largest audience, but their share in the market decreases.
the other hand, in those days began to flourish the local TV stations 'underground'. The so-called s CATV (cable televisions) have already appeared in late 40s In 1966, cable operators reached only 3% of all recipients. The range of each of the television was sometimes literally, depending on the length of cable available to the company "kablówkowa" in the area. There was a lot of these companies, and almost all had a very modest funds, as well as work on a small area: in 1966 there were 1,600 such firms, most of which had only after a few hundred subscribers. Actually, "cable" was in the beginning only an additional service, ordered an insignificant addition to the main korzytsania oligopolistic "broadcasting TV." With companies such as Mannhattanu kablówkowym residents could see the president's speech Saturday, retransmission, which was previously granted on NBC, and later cable TV subscribers in Brooklyn on Sunday, a replay of a program given earlier on ABC.
kablówkowe Companies do not have valuable infrastructure ready, so were very interested in using the opportunities broadcasting via satellites to larger areas, but they could not afford to buy such. Moreover, not only companies kablówkowe, but government agencies contributed to the development of small, diverse television programs: the conferences organized by NASA in 1967 and 1968 reported a vision of cable TV primarily as a binder of local, bottom-up instrument-building civil society, as well as a source of knowledge of medicine and other sciences (eg, had created the United Nations ogólnoglobalna station). In contrast to the "entertainment" station "broadcasting" stations were to be shaping the diversity and high level "content." Not even coined the term "NARROWCASTING. But as in the case of technology transfer, so in the case of creating "content", cable fixed the problem of lack of funds to create their own programs.
MIT professor JCR Licklider as one of the first to put forward the idea of \u200b\u200bcombining all the small businesses kablówkowych one. In 1969 the government put forward the demand to create one large network that would give such channels: weather, with documentary films and a special program transmits the Congress. Consolidation of small networks was inevitable. The first steps toward her had made the market leader, the company Teleprompter, combining into a single network all its branches (which together had 450 000 subscribers). In 1973, the first time through this network was in place an experimental satellite signal transmission, which took its reach television sets from coast to coast, USA. Thanks Teleprompterowi morning viewers can see and hear the greeting the President of Congress, and in the evening ... the evening saw a broadcast of boxing broadcast from Madison Square Garden. This material has been assigned under the contract which is signed with the company Teleprompter Home Box Office, which then acted as a cable in New York and parts of Pennsylvania. From now on we can talk about the company by providing a cable / satellite (in this case, Teleprompter, currently eg UPC, Cyfrowy Polsat, Canal + , and at stations kablówkowe producing programs - here, HBO). Earlier, a supplier provide one's own program.
HBO, originally called the Green Channel, was founded in 1965 by Chuck Dolan . Her interests soon began to buy in the media corporation, Time Life, Inc.., A small New York-based cable has become an innovator in the industry, because in 1971 became the first cable broadcast films (cinema), and sports programs. This activity proved so popular that an increasing number of other companies that provide cable TV with HBO signed the contract to distribute their program. At the end of the 30th September 1975 HBO won the "loan" from the Western Union their satellites, "Westar" to use it to broadcast a program to viewers who pay subscriptions all stations, which HBO had a contract. HBO program that day consisted of speeches of the President of the Government Commission for Communications, President of Time Inc., giving the film "Brother of the Wind" and "Alice Does not Live Here Anymore", and with great show of sports: boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. The match went into history as the "Thrilla from Manilla." Selecting just the event was a great movement on the part of HBO: the duel was loud, long before he had a place, all the sports fans were eager to see him, and no "broadcastingowa" station had no chance to broadcast their transmission Live from the Philippines.
After the success of HBO's avalanche was the expansion of platforms kablówkowych, especially since shortly after the launch of HBO on the satellite arena and entered the second nationwide TV station: WTCG Ted Turner of Atlanta. In contrast to HBO, for "Superstacja" Turner kablówek subscribers do not have to pay extra - earned at each station in its entirety through the air broadcast in its advertising. (At least not have to pay directly, because the supplier kablówek, who signed the contract with Turner had to pay for its stations to 10 cents from each of its subscribers). Soon the orbit started to get crowded. In 1987 the world was more than 70 cable networks and in-orbit satellites transmit signals to about 2500 stations.
