BBC Films Essays

  • A Look into Digital Broadcasting

    3096 Words  | 7 Pages

    Broadcasting Digital Broadcasting will have a fundamental effect on viewing patterns, popular culture and audience identity. This will be done firstly by looking at the history of the BBC and the original intention of Public Service Broadcasting. It will discuss how by John Reith’s successful approach to broadcasting, the BBC became a National Institution creating popular culture and a National Identity. It will examine how these first steps and ideas have major role in the introduction of Digital Broadcasting

  • An Analysis of Gloucester

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    productions. It will show how Gloucester ages and has similar problems as that of the King. In the first part of the play Gloucester receives a letter from Edmond, his bastard son, as the first plot towards the down fall of his father, Gloucester. In the BBC version Gloucester seems to be somewhere in his seventies, where in the PBS version Gloucester seems to be in his sixties a much younger man. This letter makes Gloucester believe that his ligament son has betrayed him, which makes Gloucester very angry

  • Analyzing the Characters of 'Billy Elliot' in the Backdrop of Thatcherism

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    The film, Billy Elliot, is about the social and personal crisis and the everyday life during the era of Margaret Thatcher. It is also about the social differences and stereotypes which still exist in the society. In this research paper I will analyse various roles in the family and the relationships of the characters in Billy Elliot during era of Thatcherism. I will focus on Billy’s relationships with people who somehow influence him from his grandmother to his ballet trainer. We can explore the

  • Comparing the Opening Scenes of the David Lean and the B.B.C. Versions of Great Expectations By Charles Dickens

    666 Words  | 2 Pages

    fear and tension in Scene 1. David Leans version was made in 1946 so it is shot in black and white. The BBC Version was made in 1997 and was in colour. Lean's version is very similar to the novel more than the B.B.C version. Lean's was the most effective at using most of the dialogue than the B.B.C version. The B.B.C version used a small amount of the dialogue. At the beginning of Lean's film the audience are shocked by the scenery. The first things we see are the gallows where the convicts

  • Royalties and Licensing

    626 Words  | 2 Pages

    Every day we encounter a lot of music as we go about our lives, whether we're listening to the radio, watching a film, shopping or going to lunch, we are constantly surrounded by music. All of this music has to be licensed, meaning musicians can make money by earning royalties from their recorded music. Licenses and their corresponding royalties fall under four different categories: Performance rights license and royalties: A performance rights license is a license which allows music to be performed

  • A Caring Mother

    1338 Words  | 3 Pages

    [1] Tillie Olsen’s “I stand Here Ironing” centers around two main characters: Emily and her mother. While Emily’s mother appears to be neglectful and at times selfish, upon further examination of her character, voice and appeal to the reader's pathos, the mother actually holds her daughter's well being above her own. The pair endure hardship throughout the text, but the mother always does the very best she can to raise her daughter, making every decision with Emily’s best interest as the central

  • The Outcast Of Poker Flat By Bret Harte

    599 Words  | 2 Pages

    The Outcast of Poker Flat “The Outcast of Poker Flat” was published on January 1869 and was written by Bret Harte. His real-life experience was the inspiration to write this story - the hardships of living and earn money while living in a harsh and relatively primitive region of the United States, the West. The main plot focuses around a group of people that tries to survive against the forces of nature and bad luck. The story starts in a small gold-mining town in California, Poker Flat. In the

  • The Importance of Mothers in All Over but the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg

    707 Words  | 2 Pages

    In the novel All Over but the Shoutin’ Rick Bragg shows the love and devotion of what every mother should have through his mother. The only woman that Bragg truly cares for and takes time out of his day is for his mother Margaret Marie. Bragg tries to do the best for his mother and tries his best to make her proud of him. Bragg learned early in life that his mother strived to give her children everything possible. For Mrs. Bragg her children are the reason she wakes up everyday and tries to make

  • Enrique's Journey

    831 Words  | 2 Pages

    For immigrants, reuniting with parents who left them is a huge problem in the U.S. Children who reunite with their parents after many years have a lot of problems with the parents. The parents and children tend to argue, the children have buried anger, and both have an idealized concept of each other. According to Los Angeles’s Newcomer School, a school for newly arrived immigrants which is referenced in Enrique’s Journey, a bit more than half of want to talk to the counselor about their problems

  • Confetti Girl And Tortilla Sun Analysis

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    Sometimes, parents and children do not see eye to eye on every issue. In the passage from Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun, the narrators have points of view that are different from those of their parents. In Confetti Girl, the father and daughter have different views on English class, which leads to tension. In Tortilla Sun, the daughter and mother have different judgement on the mother going to Costa Rica. In both passages, the children and parents have their own separate opinions on topics because

  • Mother Figure By Ayckbourn

    1471 Words  | 3 Pages

    The play “Mother figure” is a contemporary play written in the 1960’s about what it’s like to be a mother. In the 1950’s women were valued only as a stay at home mother, their life was dedicated to the children until the 1960’s when people started to question if that is what mothers should be doing. Ayckbourn explores political issues about mothers in a comical way; he exaggerates the mother of the play, Lucy, to give a hidden message about the political views. He expresses his views that women shouldn’t

  • Responsibility of Parents

    711 Words  | 2 Pages

    Parenting carries love, moral values, life skills, knowledge, traditional and so on to their children all the time. Most of the children practice the moral values, knowledge, and tradition which taught by their parents. In this way, most of them follow and believe in their parents’ word. Basically, children world views and mind were deeply shaped by their parents. Most of the children exercise what their parents practice. Children learn to make sense of what is going on around them by interact with

  • Wakan Tanka Research Paper

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    Wakan Tanka created the world and saw it was lonely and made the animals. The animals although they loved each other could not pick up after themselves and asked Wankan Tanka to make another being that would be bigger than them and can help oversee them and help keep their home clean and to be a friend to them and their home. Wakan Tanka agreed to make a being with purpose to serve the earth. He made him to be tall and hands to grasp, to clean the earth and to love the animals. He had legs to run

  • Public Service Broadcasting

    2211 Words  | 5 Pages

    Public Service Broadcasting From the establishment of the BBC in the late 1920s, British audiences were given the opportunity of taking part in a shared national experience and interest. Since that time, an apparent agreement has existed as to the general aims of broadcasting by the BBC which fell under the heading “public service broadcasting.” Although the BBC no longer enjoys a broadcasting monopoly, the promise to provide a mix of programming by which audiences may be educated as well as

  • Persuasive Essay

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    TV is the most common technology device people use and they watch TV for almost all the time. Doctors who know about the advantages and disadvantages in health say that TV does more harmful performances than favorable performances while people who just watch a lot of TV say that doing this is good for them. Since doctors can help cure people and know what is acceptable for them, this would mean that the doctors are correct about TV harming people than on how the people who watch a lot of TV believe

  • In the UK, radio and television broadcasting developed as a public service and remained so for a long time. But in the US broadcasting was dominated b

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    INTRODUCTION. Within this essay I will analyze how Radio and Television Broadcasting differs in approach within the UK and US. This essay will explain how the UK use Radio and Television Broadcasting as a Public Service opposed the US who dominate these services as a Private enterprise and will then determine which approach is better and why. Radio was invented in 1896 as a form of wireless telegraphy, which transmits the Morse code without the need for fixed stations and cables; this system was

  • Smart tvs are a smart choice

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    In this ever changing world it only makes since that the television is once again moving into a new and innovative realm of possibilities. With the invention of the Smart TV the art of watching TV has taken on a whole new meaning. Consumers will no longer be faced with just the choices of the size or clarity of a TV, but will have to decide if they want their television to be connected to the World Wide Web. The Smart TV can be used in the traditional manner, or with the assistance of the internet

  • TV Rate Hikes

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    Millions of people around the world struggle with decision making, especially when it comes to paying or cutting out monthly bills. The questions one must ask, is what bill can be cut out if any? What bill can be paid latter? The American consumers are tired of the pesky cable/satellite bill creeping up like, a predator hunting for its’ prey. Many Americans are contemplating whether they should continue paying for cable TV or cut the cord altogether? Today, the average American home pays over $103

  • Television and Media - Censorship of TV Violence Not Necessary

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    Censorship of TV Violence Not Necessary Censorship of televised media often begins as a result of the concern many adults show over what their children watch. Children begin watching television at an early age, and they are usually lifetime viewers by the time they are two to three years old. There is usually a steady increase in the amount of television watched during a persons' childhood. This is followed by a decline during adolescence. What is more of a concern to the American people, however

  • The Formation and Development of BBC Radio

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    The Formation and Development of BBC Radio Text Box: The BBC was established as a private corporation in October 1922, funded through a broadcast receiving licence fee plus ten per cent of the revenue generated from the sale of radio receivers. The service was an immediate success, with over a million licences sold by the Post Office before regular daily transmissions began. Within three years around 85 per cent of the population was able to receive the broadcasts, which consisted of