Along the way, it has much to say about television and television watching. If one does not know the antecedents being copied or parodied, such pastiches simply do not work. Soaps are generally regarded as paradigmatic television texts. If cinema's mode of watching is the gaze , television's mode is the glance. Zipping and zapping profoundly change the viewer's relationship with the image.
Viewers have different contracts with film and television as forms and as institutions.
See Assignment 10 for the last paper.