- Modest witnessing-the legitamate and authorized vantriloquist for the object world, adding nothing from his mere opinions, from his biosing embodiment.
- Today tv news takes a full day and narrows it to s 30 minute news segment.
- Whether its news story or film, reality is being shaped.
- This means;
- all media is filtered in a biased way
- truth is not natural but contructed, shaped by those that control the medium
- all media has to be interpreted by the viewer
- any form is included, -and we have to decide what is important
- film-tv-music-and sporting events are the primary means for constructing our reality
FILM
- Early it was veiwed as an extention of photography
- Panofsky" "film is not only art besides architecture cartooning and commercial desing, the only visual art entirely alive."
- one reason film was such a hit than and now is
- overcome distance-to bring far off lands to any theatre
- present an illusion of reality-we lose ourselves in the reality of the film
- suspend mortality
- borrow from other media-magic shows, burlesque dance numbers, and animal acts all supplied film with suject matters. most early actors were vets from other forms of entertainment. Numerous popular films were borrowed from literature
- Realism of film, with state of the art speakers, cameras and screens really caputre the moment-today the line of real and film is blurring.
- Actors voices, in animated movies, knowing the voice, closes the distance between actor and movie goeer
Television
- Marshal McLuhan-television affected the totality of our lives. the viewer was drawn in for an extremely intimate experience. it altered our central nervous system.
- Samuel Weber-allows distant visions to be watched-shrink distances-it also decides what we can see*with tv this is very limited, but I think the internet has opened this up to unlimited potential. but maybe that is how all new technology starts off unitl the ruling powers can concoledate and begin resricting the many perspective to just a few.
- Williams-tv solved two importante problemos
- alienation-tv served as a conduit for socialization-any given night they could see there favorite entertainers
- mobility-economy forced people to leave the neighborhoods they grew up in to make money, tv allowed them to reconnect with those neighborhoods
- But to do this, the tv had to remian in the publics control.
- the importance was not on the programming, but who controlled it.
- jacques Derrida, wantt to create active viewers-we should be active in creating tv,
- Douglas Kellner, tv as an extension of capitolist society, where tv serves business. the programming needs to meet the needs of the people, need to enter into a dialogue, what the public wants, and what is the public
- John Fiske-how people read tv-tv contains codes, once interpreted tv is transformed from something that is produced to something that is textual. which meaning previals.
MUSIC
- Theodore Adorno, prolific scholar of music and culture. musics essence could not be captured in words (platonic). Modern music was in crisis. It should not be labeled like dance, disco, ragae.
- it was in crisis because of commercialization and commodification, classification, reduced role of artist in production, dominance of technology, which was the biggest threat, by destroying the connection between listening and artist, it was only good for preserving history
- jazz was the embodiment of the threat for adorno, it proved that mass culture was not healthy.
- what makes hip hop an interesting cultural phenomonon is the eact thing that adorno criticized as teh death blow of modern music, technology. using turntables mixers and speakers.
SPORTS
- oldest form of popular entertainment besides theatre. Ancient greece held events in the Palestra, the most famous was olympia, first olympics held.
- the original purpose of the olympics was to honor zues.
- banned by roman emperor theodosius in 393 after 1200 years of events.
- rome would use the colesium for gladiotor sport so politicians could gain popularity.
- japan had sumo sport.
- maya had a ball game, losing team captian decapitated.
- modern events are not as intense or deadly as ancienct.
- sporitng events are some of our most popular cultural events , we can witness perfection and greatness at any time.
FROM SPECTATOR TO FAN CULTURE
- early film makers talk people how to watch films
- within 20 years of early film viewing a protocal emerged, sit back and relax.
- fan participation in tv shows, today, beauty and the beast, fans formed chat groups, rewrote stories, and revolted when the learned the show would be canceled after 2 seasons.
- Star trek fans created a sub culture.
- joh fiskes work power, plays, power works. fans construc their own meaning for a film.
- daniel cavicchis work on springsteen fans,
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