Visual Arts History 2284E Lecture Notes - Raindance Foundation, Guerrilla Television, Portapak
15 Dec 2012
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How the image of the woman can be subverted to critique the stereotype (marth rosler"s semitoics of the kitchen (1975) and the housewife) Must know the original ideas to understand critiques and mimicry. The number of televisions in american homes grew from 5 million to 50 million in the 1950"s. Principle of mass production demand went up and price for televisions went down = new availability. Tv surpassed radio as the dominant source for news and entertainment. Radio could have been produced by anyone (pirate radio) vs. television frequencies which are locked down and owned by tv networks. Radio encourages listener feedback as part of its core (ex. call ins) vs. One-directional media flow: tv rarely offers us access to the source of its content, to the program host or producer responsible for the broadcasted material. This is not a paradox julia barry (?)
