Owner
The Time Warner
Charles Dolan built a cable system in lower Manhattan named it Sterling Manhattan Cabel.
Time life Inc purchased 20 percent of Dolan's company becuase Dolans Company wa situated underground and signals were being blocked.
- Dolan presented his "Green Channel" idea to Time Life.
- He persuaded Time Life to back him, and soon "The Green Channel" became Home Box Office on November 8, 1972.
- Sterling Manhattan Cable was losing money because the company had a small subscriber base of 20,000 customers.
- Dolan's media partner, Time Life, Inc., gained 80 percent control of Sterling and decided to cancel Sterling Manhattan operation.
- Time Life dropped the Sterling name to become Manhattan Cable Television and gained control of HBO in March, 1973.
- Gerald Levin replaced Dolan as HBO's President and Chief Executive Officer in September 1973.
Scine 1977 HBO has produced its own original programmes, some of thier programmes are suggested that they use high amounts derogatory loanguage.
The programmes produced and aired by HBO are:
Dramas-
The Sopranos
Six feet under
Oz
The Wire
Carnivàle
Deadwood
Big Love
John from Cincinnati
Tell Me You Love Me
The Hitchhiker
Tales from the Crypt
Band of Brothers (produced in collaboration with the BBC)
Rome (produced in collaboration with the BBC)
From the Earth to the Moon (Miniseries)
The Pacific (produced in collaboration with the Seven Network)
Comedies-
Sex and the City
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Tracey Takes On...
Entourage
The Larry Sanders Show
Mr. Show
Da Ali G Show
Extras (produced in collaboration with the BBC)
Arli$$
Fraggle Rock
Dream on
Lucky Louie
1st & Ten
Flight of the Conchords
Real Time with Bill Maher
HBO is responding to the new media age, it has deals with Dreamworks, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Studios, through purchasing licence from Lucasfilm, LTD to have legal rights to air star wars II and III; and other
channels such as-
HBO Europe
HBO HD
HBO Family
HBO Latin America
HBO Family Latin America
HBO Brazil
HBO Family Brazil
HBO Asia
HBO Comedy
This is so they can Traget a wider Audience in America and other countaries.
HBO Comedy
The Ali G show aims to target teenagers, and the channel air programmes like these to get high ratinings.
HBO game - The Sopranos
HBO released "The Sopranos" game, since it's that last season, additionally they knew the fans would buy the game as people want to escape from the lives.
Sholay & Aag
The two Bollywood clips have distinctive contrasts between each other; globalisation has affected the way the latest Bollywood clip has been mediated. Globalisation has westernised media texts from the East. The directors’ portrayal of women and the mise en scene has changed the genre significantly. Also the representation of women has been kept the same however more provocative, and beautiful.
In the Sholay clip there is only one women depicted in the scene and also her belly dancing is seen more of an exotic dance or entertainment for men. The female character is wearing revealing traditional Indian clothes which is eye catching as the bright high colours of the dress connotes her youth and sexual appeal to men, also the as the dress is revealing the female can be seen as a sexual object to men enforcing the ideologies of patriarchal order and. Additionally the character is dehumanized as female is crowed and looked at by various men only to be depicted as a sexually demeaning object, this highlights Mulvey’s theory on the male gaze as this is seen in the film as well as the male audiences gazing. Moreover the scenes musical sound is played within an instrument by a male seen on in the clip this gives the film authenticity and realism, additionally the clip mostly incorporates continuity editing this makes the scene flow and uses some cuts to depict facial expressions. Furthermore the dance is portrayed as natural and not constructed giving the effect of realism.
“Aag” on the other hand portrays women in a more provocative way, they are wearing more revealing clothing this could be due to the fact of globalisation; Bollywood becoming more westernised and ideologies of western society being integrated in the Eastern civilisation. Cultural homogenisation has taken over as directors of today have become more influenced by western representations of women and society. In the scene instead of one woman there are several provocative and sexually appealing women, this shows that Mulvey’s theory is still in effect and women are represented as sexual objects and imposing the patriarchal society. Women are portrayed as “eye candy “and only in films to attract the male audience, and a duty to fulfil their sexual desires and fantasies. Moreover, the scene uses various close ups and numerous cuts also the dance is depicted as choreographed, this depicts that the scene is filmed more like a music video on Zee music which is influenced by western music videos seen on channel like MTV, this can be seen as the genre has been changed as the dancing in contrast to Sholay has been modified and mediated to fulfil the requirements of today’s audience.
Sholay and Aag are presented to the audience in different ways as films from the 21’st century have been westernised and have adapted to certain techniques such as quick cuts and close ups. The Bollywood film industry and this genre has been McDonalised and due to the digital revolution media texts are shot in more intricate shots and depicting women as fetishists which may be because of the male backlash from the 90’s till this present day.
