1 What distinguishes television's conditions from cinema's?
Correct. These conditions shaped the art form: television developed the self-contained episode, the recurring cast, and the cliffhanger.
Think about where each is watched. The setting and expected attention differ.
2 What is the difference between an episodic series and a serial?
Correct. The serial form has become important in what critics call prestige television.
Episodic means each episode stands alone. A serial continues from episode to episode.
3 What does the serial form allow that a two-hour film cannot?
Correct. The Sopranos, The Wire, and Downton Abbey use this extended time to deepen their worlds.
The advantage of a serial is time. Seasons of episodes give room to develop characters and themes.
4 Video art usually
Correct. In its goals it is closer to painting and sculpture than to television, though it uses the same technology.
Video art is not entertainment. It uses video as an artist's medium.
5 What is distinctive about Bill Viola's The Crossing?
Correct. The slowness turns a brief violent event into a sustained meditation on transformation, destruction, and renewal.
The work shows two events, fire and water, in extremely slow motion across two screens.
6 How does the form of The Wire mirror its content?
Correct. The show resists the satisfying resolutions of episodic television, just as the institutions it examines resist reform.
The Wire does not resolve its cases neatly. That open-endedness is a formal choice that matches its subject.
7 In Nam June Paik's TV Buddha, what do we see?
Correct. There is no narrative, no editing, and no progression: a contemplative figure contemplating its own electronic image.
The work is a situation: a statue, a camera, and a monitor connected in a loop.
8 Why are many video artworks designed to loop?
Correct. Looping contradicts the fixed running time of a film or television episode and changes how a viewer's attention works.
Looping removes the fixed beginning and end. Think about how that changes how you enter the work.
9 What did Paik's Global Groove imagine?
Correct. Paik manipulated television signals and mixed found footage to make television itself an artist's medium.
Paik's work is a collage of images from around the world. It imagines viewers choosing among all the world's channels.
10 A typical half-hour sitcom like I Love Lucy follows which structure?
Correct. The tidy structure suited the living-room schedule, and repetition and escalation build the jokes.
Sitcoms are episodic. Each half hour sets up a problem, makes it worse, and solves it.