York, United Kingdom

Theatre, Film and Television

Master's
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: arts
Qualification: MPhil
Kind of studies: part-time studies
Master of Philosophy (MPhil)
University website: www.york.ac.uk
Film
A film, also called a movie, motion picture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images. (See the glossary of motion picture terms.)
Television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound. The term can refer to a television set, a television program ("TV show"), or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment and news.
Film
A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking - it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.
Francois Truffaut interview in Peter Graham's The New Wave (1968).
Television
For the first time in television a writer will have the opportunity to let his imagination take him where ever he wants to. The sky is no longer the limit.
Rod Serling in Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval (October 1997), American Masters
Television
When you're young, you look at television and think, There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That's a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It's the truth.
Steve Jobs, Interview in WIRED magazine (February 1996)
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