On the Authenticity of Televisual Experience: A Critical Exploration of Para-Social Closure.

Piccirillo, M. S.

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ERIC Number: EJ342331

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Publication Date: 1986

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On the Authenticity of Televisual Experience: A Critical Exploration of Para-Social Closure.

Piccirillo, M. S.

Critical Studies in Mass Communication, v3 n3 p337-55 Sep 1986

Argues that critics are caught in the dialectical tension between "technology" and "art" in television research. Examines how this dialectic informs and constrains examination of television. Presents "rhetorical aesthetics" to support the claim that critics should draw inferences from practical consideration of everyday televisual experience. (JD)

Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Perspective Taking, Research Methodology, Television, Television Research, Television Viewing, Value Judgment

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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