Content tagged with “television”

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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
April 2, 2025
Words
177

“This book was written in 1985. The author died in 2003, and this is a second edition published posthumously in 2005. I don’t know if anything was changed, but it has an introduction by the author’s son (also an NYU professor, I gather). The author doesn’t like television, and he argues for about…”

Camera Blocking
Section
Stuff I Looked Up
Type
Explanation
Date
January 20, 2025
Words
189

“This is the precise placing of actors in a film scene. It’s a rehearsal process where actors decide and plan where they will be at each point in the scene, and where they will move during the scene, in relation to the camera. It’s important because an actor has to be in frame, usually facing the…”

Colorist
Section
Stuff I Looked Up
Type
Explanation
Date
October 19, 2024
Words
322

“Broadly speaking, this is an artist who applies or manipulates the color of media. In comic books, the original drawings were done in black-and-white, and a colorist then applied color to them. So the lines of the drawing and the color were done by two separate artists. (See a good example on the…”

Diegesis
Section
Stuff I Looked Up
Type
Explanation
Date
September 11, 2024
Words
529

“In narrative story-telling, diegesis refers to things that are experienced by the characters within the story. Non-diegesis refers to things that are experienced by the audience, not the characters. Example, if watching a movie: Background music coming from a band playing in a bar as part of the…”

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
December 25, 2022
Words
574

“Matthew Perry is lucky to be alive. In this book, he recounts his story of addiction, from alcohol as a teenager, through to pills as an adult. As the book starts, he’s in rehab, in great pain. Opiates cause constipation, and he’s so constipated that his bowel ruptures. He almost dies. He spends…”

Moonlighting: An Oral History
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
February 1, 2024
Words
1381

“Moonlighting was finally streaming on Hulu, so I started binge-watching it. It was a show that aired during my teenage years, so I have vague memories of it. It was an ‘adult’ show, and I somewhat remember my mother not approving. I saw a scattering of episodes, but never string them together….”

Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
February 1, 2025
Words
818

“This is an excellent, detailed history of the first 10 years of Saturday Night Live . I was surprised it only covered the first 10 years, but then I further surprised to find that it was written in 1986. (Apparently this book was a tell-all scandal back then. I was reading the Wikipedia page for…”

You Never Know: A Memoir
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
May 18, 2024
Words
507

“I enjoyed this quite a bit, largely because it felt like it was written by Tom Selleck himself. I was nervous when I saw a co-author credit, because I was afraid it was going to be glossy and sanitized, but it’s not. In fact, it’s even a little awkward in places. It genuinely feels like it was…”