1. Authorship and agency -- 2. The medium -- 3. Ontology -- 4. Interpretation I -- 5. Interpretation II -- 6. Evaluation.
Contemporary television has been marked by such exceptional programming that it is now common to hear claims that TV has finally become an art. In Appreciating the Art of Television, Nannicelli contends that televisual art is not a recent development, but has in fact existed for…
"Television and the Embodied Viewer appraises the medium's capacity to evoke sensations and bodily feelings in the viewer. Presenting a fresh approach to television studies, the book examines the sensate force of onscreen bodies and illustrates how TV's multisensory appeal build…
"Television and the Embodied Viewer appraises the medium's capacity to evoke sensations and bodily feelings in the viewer. Presenting a fresh approach to television studies, the book examines the sensate force of onscreen bodies and illustrates how TV's multisensory appeal build…
As beautifully written as it is theoretically rigorous, 'Utopian Television' turns to the writing of Fredric Jameson and Ernst Bloch in treating the three directors' television experiments as enactments of 'utopia as method.' In doing so it reveals the extent to which the medium…
"Television is the most powerful system of images in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Nonetheless, TV has attained only little philosophical attention so far, especially compared to other (visual) media such as film. This book looks at TV as what happens on the screen and…