How does the 1976 film network accurately reflect ideologies and practices of modern television?
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Table of Contents
- Introduction.
- Network: Directed by Sidney Lumet.
- Ratings dictate the content shown.
- The outrageous and shocking television scenes in Network.
- Lumet and Chayefsky's use Network to clearly predict the dictatorship of television.
- Network's prediction of the ideologies and practices of modern television.
- Conclusion.
- Bibliography.
Abstract
The ideologies and practices evident in modern television are succinctly foreshadowed in the 1976 Hollywood classic, network. This prophetic Oscar-winning film satirically dramatised a series of predictions, most of which were fulfilled in modern television. The film shows that ratings have become more important to soulless conglomerates than reporting the truth. It foreshadows mutual reality television as well as entertainment through suffering and humiliation. however, the movie incorrectly infers that television content with a right wing agenda cannot successfully achieve high ratings, something which seems quaint in the era of Murdoch's aggressively successful, right-wing "FoxNews". Furthermore, network fails to foresee the advent of Cable TV and the Internet as highly influential tools for media distribution.
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