2000:
o ’00: Big Brother
o ‘00: George Bush or Algore? (Problem with counting votes… – George Bush is elected president)
o ’01: Interactive Wimbledon
o ’01: Pop idol
o ’01: 9/11
o ’02: Launch of BBC4 (Aimed at ‘people who want more from TV’)
o ’02: Live autopsy
o ’03: More reality TV: The salon, Wife Swap.
o ’03: Start of Iraq war
o ’04: Hutton Report published: Conclusion –BBC’s claim that allegations had been ‘sexed up’ were unfounded. Dyke resigns.
o ’04: Asian Tsunami
o ’04: The secret policeman
o ’07: 7/7
o ‘07/’08: Phone in scandals
Saturday
1990s:
1990s:
o ’90: Thatcher steps down, is succeeded by John Major
o ’91: Broadcasting Standards Council (Set up to monitor sex, violence and bad language on TV and radio).
o ’92: 'Black Wednesday: (Britain crashed out of the ERM – Huge devaluation of the £ - Gov loses £22bn)
o ’93: Creation of the EU
o ’95: Gaytime TV: On the BBC for gays and lesbians.
o ’97: Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister – Labour (BRINGS IN MORE WOMEN MPS)
o ’97: News 24 launches
o ’97: Queer as folk – (CH4 drama about 4 gay men living together- first to deal exclusively with gay storylines – receives complaints for its explicit sex scenes)
o ‘97- Channel 5 launches
o ’90: Thatcher steps down, is succeeded by John Major
o ’91: Broadcasting Standards Council (Set up to monitor sex, violence and bad language on TV and radio).
o ’92: 'Black Wednesday: (Britain crashed out of the ERM – Huge devaluation of the £ - Gov loses £22bn)
o ’93: Creation of the EU
o ’95: Gaytime TV: On the BBC for gays and lesbians.
o ’97: Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister – Labour (BRINGS IN MORE WOMEN MPS)
o ’97: News 24 launches
o ’97: Queer as folk – (CH4 drama about 4 gay men living together- first to deal exclusively with gay storylines – receives complaints for its explicit sex scenes)
o ‘97- Channel 5 launches
1980s:
1980s:
o ‘80: Women Cops : Shows on BBC1 and ITV showing taking proper notice of female cops (women have been policewoman since 1949)
o ’81: Brixton race riots
o ’82: Falklands war
o ’84: Miners strike
o ’87: Ordination of female priests
o ’89: Launch of satellite TV
o ’89: Fall of Berlin wall
o ‘80: Women Cops : Shows on BBC1 and ITV showing taking proper notice of female cops (women have been policewoman since 1949)
o ’81: Brixton race riots
o ’82: Falklands war
o ’84: Miners strike
o ’87: Ordination of female priests
o ’89: Launch of satellite TV
o ’89: Fall of Berlin wall
1970s:
1970s:
o ’70: Break up of the Beatles
o ’72: Newsround
o ’77: Death of Elvis
o ’73: Watergate Scandal/trial
o ’74: Nixon resigns as a result.
o ’75: The Naked Civil Servant (Defying moment in television’s depiction of gay lifestyles – tells the life story of a persecuted homosexual)
o ’76: Jeremy Thorpe Affair (trial following allegations that the MP had arranged to murder a man with whom he had a homosexual relationship)
o ’77: Roots (Programme about the slavery of African Americans – Historical dramas of this type defined the ‘70s)
o ’79: Thatcher Elected (Conservative party – ‘Iron lady’ – First female Prime Minister)
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o ’70: Break up of the Beatles
o ’72: Newsround
o ’77: Death of Elvis
o ’73: Watergate Scandal/trial
o ’74: Nixon resigns as a result.
o ’75: The Naked Civil Servant (Defying moment in television’s depiction of gay lifestyles – tells the life story of a persecuted homosexual)
o ’76: Jeremy Thorpe Affair (trial following allegations that the MP had arranged to murder a man with whom he had a homosexual relationship)
o ’77: Roots (Programme about the slavery of African Americans – Historical dramas of this type defined the ‘70s)
o ’79: Thatcher Elected (Conservative party – ‘Iron lady’ – First female Prime Minister)
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1960s:
1960s:
o ‘6o: Debut of Coronation ST.
o ‘6o: JFK takes over as president from Nixon.
o ’60: Introduction of the contraceptive pill.
o ’62: Marylyn Monroe found dead (Drug overdose – age 36)
o ’63: JFK assassinated
o ’64: Nelson Mandela sentenced to imprisonment
o ’65: Vietnam war becomes first to be televised
o ’66: England win world cup.
o ‘6o: Debut of Coronation ST.
o ‘6o: JFK takes over as president from Nixon.
o ’60: Introduction of the contraceptive pill.
o ’62: Marylyn Monroe found dead (Drug overdose – age 36)
o ’63: JFK assassinated
o ’64: Nelson Mandela sentenced to imprisonment
o ’65: Vietnam war becomes first to be televised
o ’66: England win world cup.
1950S:
1950s:
o ’50: Korean War
o ’52 : Funeral of King George V| (Broadcast live on TV – First monarch event to do so)
o ’53: Coronation of Queen Elizabeth || (Important event in the evolution of British TV. Was the first time that TV drew in a bigger audience than radio)
o ’53: ‘The Quarter Mass Experiment’ (First Sci-Fi show, drew a mass audience, was performed live each week)
o ’54: ‘The Grove Family’ (First British soap for adults. About a couple who struggle to build a home for their family after the war. Had ¼ of the population as its audience)
o ’54: First Daily TV news programme: (Richard Baker, still images)
o ’54: Television Act 1954 (?)
o ’55: ITV starts broadcasting (Ends BBC’s monopoly. Has commercials)
o ’55: Montgomery bus boycott (US civil rights movement)
o ’57: Suez crisis (Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns as a result )
o ’57: First appointment at emergency award 10: (1st TV hospital drama)
o ’58: Black and White Minstrel show
o ’58: ITV screens the Arm Chair Theatre (represents the real working class in contrast to the BBC’s more conventional plays)
o ’59: Whickers World (Offering international news for the first time.)
o ’50: Korean War
o ’52 : Funeral of King George V| (Broadcast live on TV – First monarch event to do so)
o ’53: Coronation of Queen Elizabeth || (Important event in the evolution of British TV. Was the first time that TV drew in a bigger audience than radio)
o ’53: ‘The Quarter Mass Experiment’ (First Sci-Fi show, drew a mass audience, was performed live each week)
o ’54: ‘The Grove Family’ (First British soap for adults. About a couple who struggle to build a home for their family after the war. Had ¼ of the population as its audience)
o ’54: First Daily TV news programme: (Richard Baker, still images)
o ’54: Television Act 1954 (?)
o ’55: ITV starts broadcasting (Ends BBC’s monopoly. Has commercials)
o ’55: Montgomery bus boycott (US civil rights movement)
o ’57: Suez crisis (Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns as a result )
o ’57: First appointment at emergency award 10: (1st TV hospital drama)
o ’58: Black and White Minstrel show
o ’58: ITV screens the Arm Chair Theatre (represents the real working class in contrast to the BBC’s more conventional plays)
o ’59: Whickers World (Offering international news for the first time.)
Wednesday
Psycho: (1960) (USA)
-Directed by Alfred Hitchcock (the ‘master of suspense’)
-Regarded as the ‘Granddaddy’ of slasher films.
-Context: Based around the Ed Gein killings that occurred in the 1950s in America
Form: An extract from the film Psycho, famously known as ‘the shower scene’.
Function: To provide the audience with masochistic and sadistic pleasure.
• M-I-G-R-A-I-N
Media language:
-Extreme close-ups- provide masochistic pleasure for the audience through being able to identify with the character. Extreme close-ups also help to intensify and heighten the feeling of terror.
-Knife: Phallic symbol. Sign of male dominance and patriarchy as it penetrates the female character. Context (political/social): Link to 1960’s introduction of the contraceptive pill- ‘male backlash’?
-black and white colour: Hitchcock makes a deliberate decision to use black and white colour despite the availability of colour at the time. The conscious decision that Hitchcock makes to use B&W provides the film with a heightened sense of fear and anxiety by not being able to see everything in full reality/colour.
-Naked female – connotes vulnerability and sadism.
-Music- Dramatic, fast paced- adds to tension.
Institution:
Paramount pictures.
Genre:
Categorised by some as the ‘granddaddy’ of slasher films. Makes use of generic techniques such as a female victim, phallic symbols etc.
The conventions of slasher films have of course developed to include more elements such as a group of teenagers which psycho does not have.
Representation:
Female: victims, inferior.
The victim’s sister however, presents characteristics of strength and perseverance.
Audience:
Male
20s
Ideologies:
Issues of morality: The female victim takes part in adultery and theft. She is killed which aims to condemn such acts to the audience.
However, the male adulterer survives in the film. This suggests that the film has patriarchal values as the female is condemned but the male isn’t.
Narrative:
Linear narrative.
Relationship between mother and son: fatal downfall.
-Directed by Alfred Hitchcock (the ‘master of suspense’)
-Regarded as the ‘Granddaddy’ of slasher films.
-Context: Based around the Ed Gein killings that occurred in the 1950s in America
Form: An extract from the film Psycho, famously known as ‘the shower scene’.
Function: To provide the audience with masochistic and sadistic pleasure.
• M-I-G-R-A-I-N
Media language:
-Extreme close-ups- provide masochistic pleasure for the audience through being able to identify with the character. Extreme close-ups also help to intensify and heighten the feeling of terror.
-Knife: Phallic symbol. Sign of male dominance and patriarchy as it penetrates the female character. Context (political/social): Link to 1960’s introduction of the contraceptive pill- ‘male backlash’?
-black and white colour: Hitchcock makes a deliberate decision to use black and white colour despite the availability of colour at the time. The conscious decision that Hitchcock makes to use B&W provides the film with a heightened sense of fear and anxiety by not being able to see everything in full reality/colour.
-Naked female – connotes vulnerability and sadism.
-Music- Dramatic, fast paced- adds to tension.
Institution:
Paramount pictures.
Genre:
Categorised by some as the ‘granddaddy’ of slasher films. Makes use of generic techniques such as a female victim, phallic symbols etc.
The conventions of slasher films have of course developed to include more elements such as a group of teenagers which psycho does not have.
Representation:
Female: victims, inferior.
The victim’s sister however, presents characteristics of strength and perseverance.
Audience:
Male
20s
Ideologies:
Issues of morality: The female victim takes part in adultery and theft. She is killed which aims to condemn such acts to the audience.
However, the male adulterer survives in the film. This suggests that the film has patriarchal values as the female is condemned but the male isn’t.
Narrative:
Linear narrative.
Relationship between mother and son: fatal downfall.
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