Media Notes are articles on this site that cover background information and history on media. How it is made, the things that aid in creating them, common elements and topics related to them, and accolades that may be given to them.
See Useful Notes, for info on subjects and phenomenon that pop up in works and to debunk common misconceptions about them, and Platforms, which are software, hardware, and locations created for audiences to experience media.
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Advertising
Arts (painting, sculpting, photography, performance)
Visual Arts
Theatre and Opera
Audiovisual media (film and television)
- Television (Main topic)
General
Networks- American Television Stations
- Canadian Multichannel Networks
- Flemish TV Stations
- German TV Stations
- News Networks
- Portuguese TV Stations
- 3-D Projection
- Academy Award
- Analog vs. Digital
- AMPTP
- ANSI Standard Broadcast TV Schedule
- Audio Description
- Australian New Wave
- BAFTA
- Biker Media
- Block Programming
- Bollywood (Hindi-language Indian cinema)
- Casting Director
- CinemaScore
- Closed Captioning
- Dogme '95
- Film & TV Companies
- Film Formats
- French New Wave
- Giffoni Honorees
- Goya Award
- The Hays Code
- Home Video Distributors
- Media Classifications (for movies and TV shows)
- Mormon Cinema
- Movieguide
- National Film Registry
- Nollywood (Nigerian cinema)
- The Otherwoods (non-Hindi cinema of India)
- PEG Channel
- Prime Time
- Ratings
- Red Button Interactive
- The Rural Purge
- Segregated Commercial
- Safe Harbor
- Script Life Cycle
- State Broadcaster
- Stereoscopic Imagery
- Syndication
- Teletext
- Tokusatsu
- TV Licensing
- TV Strikes
- Unions in Hollywood
Animation
History of Animation- Early Animation
- The Silent Age of Animation
- The Golden Age of Animation
- The Dark Age of Animation
- The Renaissance Age of Animation
- The Millennium Age of Animation
Film
History of Hollywood- The Pre Hollywood Era
- The Silent Age of Hollywood
- Rise of the Talkies
- The Golden Age of Hollywood
- Fall of the Studio System
- New Hollywood
- The Blockbuster Age of Hollywood
Other
Games
General
- Role Playing (live-action, tabletop, and video game RPGs)
Tabletop Games
- BEER Engine
- Cardinal System
- Cypher System
- d20 System
- Fate
- Forged in the Dark
- Fudge
- GUMSHOE
- GURPS
- Powered by the Apocalypse
- Savage Worlds
- Unisystem
Other
Video Games
- Aladdin Deck Enhancer
- Arcade Game
- Application Programming Interface
- Backwards Compatibility
- Beta Test
- Binary Bits and Bytes
- Bitmaps, Sprites and Textures
- Child's Play (Charity)
- Cloud Gaming
- Console Wars
- Digital Distribution
- Digital Rights Management
- Display Technology
- Emulation
- Electronic Entertainment Expo
- Fighting Game
- Game Engine
- Game Genie
- GameShark
- Gaming Audio
- General Gaming Gamepads
- Graphics Processing Unit
- The History of Video Games
- How Video Game Specs Work
- Import Gaming
- Interactive Fiction Competition
- Mass Storage
- Mechanics, Dynamics, Aesthetics (aka the "MDA model")
- Media Classifications (for video games)
- Mii
- PC vs. Console
- Performance Bottleneck
- Polygonal Graphics
- Professional Gaming
- Programming Language
- Random Access Memory
- Random Number Generator
- Region Coding
- Ren'Py
- Revenue-Enhancing Devices
- Shovelware
- Software Porting
- Video Game A.I.
- Video Game Design
- Visual Novel Fanspeak
- Western RPG
- Xbox Avatars
Multimedia
- The Auteur Theory
- Awards Index
- The Bechdel Test
- Biker Media
- Censorship Systems
- Deggans' Rule
- Disney Legends
- Fonts
- Franchise Actors
- Free/Libre Open Source Software
- History & Historical Characters in Media
- Intellectual Property
- The Japanese Invasion
- Jenny Everywhere
- Korean Wave
- Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness
- Mohs Scale of Violence Hardness
- National Recording Registry
- Erotica and Pornography
- Pulitzer Prize
- School Study Media
Music
Print Media (books and comics)
Comic Books
Editors The Ages of Superhero Comics- The Golden Age of Comic Books
- The Interregnum
- The Silver Age of Comic Books
- The Bronze Age of Comic Books
- The Dark Age of Comic Books
- The Modern Age of Comic Books
Literature
- Arthur C. Clarke Award
- The Auteur Theory
- Bram Stoker Award
- British Fantasy Award
- Carnegie Medal
- Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award
- Great American Novel
- Hugo Award note
- NaNoWriMo
- Nebula Award
- Newbery Medal
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- OIF Challenged Books List
- Philip K. Dick Award
- Poetry Forms
- World Fantasy Award
- Writer's Resources
