How has the DVD box set and, more recently, online streaming transformed the production of television and the experience of viewing?

FILM HISTORY

Essay – 2,700-3,300words

QUESTION 1:
Sherry B. Ortner (2012) suggests that American independent filmmakers produce films that are, in many respects, ‘against Hollywood’. How does my Own Private Idaho both reinforce and problematise this proposition?

Materials American Independent Cinema: New Queer Cinema
My Own Private Idaho (Gus van Sant, USA 1991)
Film Link: https://solarmovie.pe/watch-movie/watch-my-own-private-idaho-
free-16869.5302333

Reading:
Rich, B. Ruby (1992) ‘New Queer Cinema’, Sight and Sound, September 1992
https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/new-queer-cinema-b-ruby-rich

QUESTION 2:

How has the DVD box set and, more recently, online streaming transformed the production of television and the experience of viewing? Are there any differences between these two modes of delivery or do they simply do the same thing?

Materials
VIDEO/LECTURE LINK:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x5j6pYSGhT_AnmN846H81TDQqaBlSiG-/view?usp=sharing

Screening:
The Wire (season 1, episodes 1 and 2, 2002, USA) *** Higher resolution copies available below via Panopto
https://solarmovie.pe/tv/watch-the-wire-free-39269

Assigned reading:
Matt Hills, ‘From the Box in the Corner to the Box Set on the Shelf’, New Review of Film and
Television Studies, Vol. 5, no. 1, (April 2007), pp. 41-60

How has the DVD box set and, more recently, online streaming transformed the production of television and the experience of viewing?