What illusion is exploded in the Sistine Chapel or in the Divine Comedy or Kind of Blue?
Randy Steindorf <grsteindorf at hotmail.com> wrote: TV is largely entertainment. Art should be shaping the popular consciousness is art, not entertainment.
What is the distinction between the two? Entertainment exploits the illusions that the average citizen has about their current social relations, while art explodes those illusions, attempting to gain insight into the real social relations among real people. Art can have entertaining aspects, especially drama (Shakespeare) or opera (Mozart), but entertainment rarely has an artistic effect because they are directed at two opposed purposes: Entertainment to exploit illusions, art to explode illusions.
The role of scriptwriters, directors, and producers, as a fragment of the "ideological classes" is to perfect the illusions of philistines about themselves, to make them comfortable in their alienation from their creative humanity.
Their is also the question of stimulus hunger and the role of time structuring. What kind of activities does the individual engage in during the 24 hours of each day? How are work (necessary labor) and leisure (free and creative labor) structured during the day? How do entertainment and art fit into this structure in terms of quantity of occupied time? 8 hours of work, 8 hours of sleep, and 8 hours of entertainment. Is this the content of a "human" life?
grs
But TV is one of the main forces shaping
>popular consciousness, and if you're out of touch with it, you don't
>know what makes people tick. Which may be fine with you, but it's not
>with me.
>
>Besides, it doesn't all suck.
>
>Doug
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