[MCC-UE 1010] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (20 pages long!)

• School: New York University
• Department: Media, Culture & Communication
• Course: MCC-UE 1010
• Professor: Susan Murray

Document Summary

However some comedies are moving towards single camera. Line b/w stage and audience (fourth wall) Something produced, can be experienced by the masses. Industrialization played a large part in creating mass culture. To transport you into the event or show. Taste culture: highbrow, middlebrow, lowbrow cultural hierarchy reflected in what modes of entertainment you consume (what taste is better) Highbrow: requires a certain level of intellect & education, high class status, money to purchase tickets, expensive dress code, often live - higher sense of authenticity. Exclusivity - only accessible to higher class people, usually live - only people who would get to see that performance, better trained actors & personnel. Middlebrow: aspiration to be better than lowbrow but doesn"t quite reach highbrow. Easily accessible, but an attempt to to acquire culture. Lowbrow: cheap, easily accessible, easily understood/readable, shared experience. Meant to transport you to the place where the broadcast is taking place. 1906: first broadcast of human voice on wireless.