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The article focuses on the appeal and advantage of serialization in the media. The article discusses the focus on narrative art as serial art, the advantages of serialization such as lower production costs, the ability to tell a story over several episodes for greater audience feedback and involvement and increased options for the creation of suspense. The article goes on to discuss the pitfalls of serialization including the opportunity for continuity errors, the changing appearance of actors and the alienation of audiences due to lack of resolution without progress or conclusion.

The article discusses the accommodation by classical editing conventions of films for the processes and limitations of the sense organs. It notes that the acceptance of imperfect and disjointed visual information has allowed spatial coherence to be perceived by the brain. It mentions that technical devices for depicting space are needed in creating utmost spatial clarity.

Explores the basic principles of anamorphic filmmaking. Division of the frame into a grid of equal partners; Continuity of the quartered frame in an edited sequence; Quartered frame in camera reframing; Quartered frame in lap dissolves.

Focuses on several visual styles used in contemporary motion pictures in the U.S. Enumeration of stylistic tactics; Dominance of reliance on single, closer views, and wide-ranging camera movements in the 60s and 70s; Assessment of the styles of directors Jonathan Demme, Spike Lee and Ron Howard.

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