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History Media Studies
Presentation Outline:
Media
Timeline
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
Media education continues to move forward but still has some of the suspicion
of the media industries at heart
$35,000 Blair Witch Project shows potential of low cost video production.
Oscars: The Silence of the Lambs, Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster.
Also at the movies: Thelma & Louise, Bugsy, City Slickers.
Rodney King beating videotape shot by amateur adds "visualanties" to lexicon.
Nokia sends text messages between mobile phones.
Digital satellite TV service, DirecTV, offered.
Also at the movies: Pulp Fiction, Nell, The Client, Speed, The Lion King.
Forrest Gump uses digital photo tricks to insert person into historical footage.
Toy Story is the first totally digital feature-length film.
WebTV formed to combine television and the Internet.
The shooter game Quake allows users to create their own levels.
TV host Oprah Winfrey boosts book sales with monthly book club.
American Psychological Assoc. correlates TV violence, aggressive behaviour.
DVDs go on sale.
From Kodak, the first point-and-shoot digital camera.
Film Titanic costs $300 million to make, market; will earn more than twice that.
Image of dancing baby emailed worldwide, becomes TV's Ally McBeal regular.
Music industry up in arms as fans download MP3 sound files for free.
Also at the movies: Matrix, The Insider, The Hurricane, The Sixth Sense.
Jon Johansen, 15, of Norway manages to break movie DVD copy protection.
The Gulf War becomes the first war to be broadcast live into living rooms
2000s
Childrens existing knowledge seen as the starting point for media education, and UK Government recognises the
importance of Media Education. The aim now is to prepare children rather then protect them.
Feature film Quantum Project is produced for Internet distribution, not theaters.
Stephen Kings novel Riding the Bullet is best seller via Net downloads only.
Instant messaging grows in popularity.
Also at the movies: Lord of the Rings, Gosford Park, Moulin Rouge, Shrek.
iPod holds 10,000 tunes, but fits into a shirt pocket.
The Sims 2 advances story games for computers.
Digital car radios go on sale, digital AM and FM signals boasting CD-quality.
Film, The Passion of the Christ is praised, criticised.
Google gets 138,000 requests a minute in 90 languages.
$21 billion spent on online ads in U.S. alone.
iTunes music store offers tunes for 99 cents.
Cable TV offers Sky+ features: storing, skipping commercials.
Hollywood releases heavy on special effects, violence, sequels.
For the first time, more DVDs than videotapes are rented in the U.S.
Feature film, Attack of the Clones, produced entirely in digital format.
Sony's PlayStation2, Microsoft's Xbox, Nintendo's GameCube attract devotees.
Documentary feature Oscar: Bowling for Columbine.
South Africas Sesame Street introduces an HIV-positive puppet.
UK workers spend more time with email than with their children.
Simone, a comedy about a computer-generated film star
Cambridge university brands Media Studies an academic lightweight
Ministers complain there are more students studying media studies than physics
Apple to distribute movies through i tunes
Jim
Ewan
Graphic Novel
Film
Radio
Computer Game
Website
Cartoon Series
Merchandise
Spin-offs
Advertising
Sequals
Reviews
Theatre
DVD, Extended DVDs, Box Sets
Fin.