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John Caughie offers this assessment of the historical coming together of television drama and cinema:
Channel 4 completed the long march of technology from live television to film — and to film not just as a technology (as it had been used since the 1960s) but as an aesthetic and a culture. Aesthetically, television drama increasingly aspired to look like cinematic film and, culturally, Channel 4 began a new alignment between cinema and television.1
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Andrews, H. (2014). Film and Television Drama: The Making of a Relationship. In: Television and British Cinema. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137311177_2
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