Right to the Source: An Early Attempt At Flight

Three tetralogies attributed to Antiphon survive, and while all three depict trials for homicide, the second and third are often treated en bloc. Antiphon’s third tetralogy describes a case in which the defendant is accused of intentional homicide. Though commentators typically read the tetralogy as a discussion of causation as such, “Responsibility Rationalized: Action and Pollution in Antiphon’s Tetralogies” reconstructs it as an early attempt to deal with issues of intention and action surrounding around what twentieth-century philosophy came to call the doctrine of double effect. While Antiphon does not articulate the doctrine, he develops a nuanced view that addresses the same concerns about responsibility for consequences that motivate its defenders.

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III. On the photographic spectra of stars

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London ◽

10.1098/rspl.1879.0078 ◽

1880 ◽

Vol 30 (200-205) ◽

pp. 20-22

Keyword(s):

The Sun ◽

Preliminary Note ◽

Early Attempt ◽

The Subject ◽

Prospect Of Success

The author presented, in December, 1876, a preliminary note on the subject of this paper, together with a diagram of the spectrum of Vega compared with that of the sun. The author refers to a paper by Dr. William Allen Miller and himself in 1864, in which they describe an early attempt to photograph the spectra of stars. Other investigations prevented the author from resuming this line of research until 1875, when a more perfect driving clock, by Grubb, enabled him to take up this work with greater prospect of success.

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Apes on TV: Medium specificity and considerations of continuity in early transmedia storytelling

Critical Studies in Television The International Journal of Television Studies ◽

10.1177/1749602018809790 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 22-39 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Nicholas Benson

Keyword(s):

Textual Analysis ◽

Television Series ◽

High Expectations ◽

Early Attempt ◽

Broadcast Television ◽

Medium Specificity ◽

Transmedia Storytelling ◽

History Of ◽

Film Series ◽

Tv Show

In 1974, CBS premiered a television series based on the popular Planet of the Apes films. Despite high expectations from the network, the series was a critical and ratings flop and CBS quickly canceled it in the middle of its first season. This article considers the short-lived Planet of the Apes (1974) series as an early attempt at transmedia storytelling and asks what its failure might reveal about certain pre-conglomeration, pre-franchising industrial logics, particularly as they relate to properties that transition from film to television. The Apes television series offers an opportunity to understand certain logics of transmedia textual management before they become entrenched in discourses of media franchising. Through a combination of industrial and textual analysis, I trace the history of the programme and ultimately argue that the industrial considerations (specifically those of network era broadcast television) heavily informed the intertextual relationships between the film series and the TV show.

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