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Two moving image-based mediums, television and cinema are natural rivals… and as great rivals tend to be, they are and have long been mutually fascinated with one another. In this chock-a-block with ideas but commercial-free series, see how provocative cineastes through the years have engaged with, spoofed, and subverted the tropes of the small screen, from Bill Gunn and Ishmael Reed’s “meta soap opera” Personal Problems, and Benjamin Crotty’s sly reappropriation of reality TV dialogue in Fort Buchanan, to Bruce and Norman Yonemoto’s deadpan dissection of how mass media propaganda colonizes our inner lives in Green Card: An American Romance. Don’t touch that dial!