tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512870689197311087.post8259846504865784985..comments2023-05-09T02:31:07.268-07:00Comments on CTCS 587: TV Theory 2017: Core Response, TV + Family Tara McPhersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09874394027026185133noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512870689197311087.post-67212552267261902952017-01-30T20:28:01.016-08:002017-01-30T20:28:01.016-08:00To make a connection between Spigel’s article and ...To make a connection between Spigel’s article and the “The Rhythms of Reception” and Alia’s response to it: the two pieces work well together in shedding light upon different aspects of how and for what ends the close-up is made to function in TV and its various genres. <br />As for Spigel: as you point out, television was imagined and marketed as a form of device of communication, a consumer good that would “eradicate[e] distance] and “conquer space”, opening up the world for, or even actually bringing it, so to speak, to the viewer (Spigel, p7). In close relation to this promise and idealized function, television had to offer advantages over actually going to a theater or other live performance, rather than being perceived as a mere, secondary reproduction of, or poor substitution for, a live performance or a night out. I think Spigel convincingly argues for the close-up functioning for the creation of this sense of superiority of television by offering a kind of visual access to the aspects of a spectacle that a viewer who is actually there (rather than watching it on TV) would not have.<br />So, in my reading of the relevant articles, in both Spigel’s and in Modleski’s example, close-ups on TV seem to work for some sort of perceptual-epistemological privilege, or at least a sense of it, which is implicitly or explicitly contrasted to the (relatively poor) real life/ physical bodily opportunities TV is supposed to override. <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05176370085096625626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512870689197311087.post-71412079170958480922017-01-30T20:06:28.299-08:002017-01-30T20:06:28.299-08:00I really enjoy how Spigel highlights the relations...I really enjoy how Spigel highlights the relationship between gender and emerging technologies as television made its way into consumer culture. Reading Spigel with contemporary society in mind, I can't help but think how the relationship between housewives and television has shifted through reality television displaying their lives and scripted struggles. Initially, television was made for housewives to be part of something larger in a post-War World II context, now they are within the television sets looking out. I also really enjoyed how Spigel commented on how the television set made its way into women's magazines, as objects that are desirable, along with home decor. (9 Spigel) Similarly, reality television portrays the lives of rich women so that viewers can escape into a world that displays material objects they may never afford.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08536269561266805629noreply@blogger.com