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Verbal·Expression of Ideas·Rhetorical Synthesis
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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
  • Documentary TV programs in the slow TV genre consist of uninterrupted broadcasts of ordinary events in real time.
  • Nordlandsbanen: Minutt for Minutt is a Norwegian slow TV program.
  • The 10-hour-long program documented a train ride from Trondheim to Bodø.
  • It first aired in 2012.
  • In her book Spectacular Television: Exploring Televisual Pleasure, British film scholar Helen Wheatley writes that slow TV “offers ‘unspectacular’ spectacle.”
The student wants to provide a specific example of a slow TV program. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
A
British film scholar Helen Wheatley writes about the slow TV genre in her book Spectacular Television: Exploring Televisual Pleasure.
B
An example of the slow TV genre can be seen in Nordlandsbanen: Minutt for Minutt, a 2012 Norwegian show featuring an uninterrupted 10-hour real-time broadcast of a train ride from Trondheim to Bodø.
C
Slow TV programs provide uninterrupted broadcasts of ordinary events, such as train rides, in real time.
D
With their uninterrupted broadcasts, slow TV programs offer what film scholar Helen Wheatley calls the “‘unspectacular’ spectacle” of ordinary events occurring in real time.