DESMA 8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Tv Dinner, Karl Freund
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L e c t u r e 1 1. Just after wwii more than 40 million radios were spread across the us, but there were barely 45 thou- sand television and two thirds of those were in the new. 1946: only one half of one percent of household in the. Is the television the bringer of togetherness , a way to unify the family after the traumas of the war? . A ow from the kitchen to the living room; organ- ized around a certain audio visual system. Or does television break us apart because of its unfa- miliar aspect? . A medium that allows a fair amount of splitting . Tv"s impact on food, space, spectatorship, personhood, subjectivity, etc. Stories on tv that t with kinds of things the tv is trying to sell. A history of tv style: the history of television style intertwines issues of technol- ogy, economics and aesthetics.
