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“None of these arguments were new, of course. Fights about art had always doubled as fights about what the world takes seriously - which is another way to say, they were fights about politics. They were fights about power. I wasn’t a fan of heavy-handed, pedantic TV, which had its own tradition in the medium (part of television’s legacy as a public resource, the aqueduct that everyone’s kids drank from.)..
— Oct 07, 2019 05:11AM
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As a mass medium, TV was our public square. It was where the rules got enforced. It was also where we hashed out the news as it happened, where we looked for our reflections. Critical contempt for televition was like refusing to look into the mirror.” - page 12-13
— Oct 07, 2019 05:12AM
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“But even shows that weren’t polemical, that didn’t feature “very special episodes,” had a different sort of politics, the type that soaked through everywhere, disguised in the look and feel and structure...”
— Oct 07, 2019 05:12AM
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“Centrally, these were arguments about whose stories carried weight, about what kind of creativity counted as ambitious, and about who (which characters, which creators, and also, which audience members) deserved attention. What kind of person got to ge a genius? Whose story counted asuniversal? Which type of art had staying power? ..
— Oct 07, 2019 05:09AM
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“When I proselytized for Buffy, or debated my fellow graduate students about Sex and the City, the fight felt like a way to hash out other questions - questions of values, which were embedded (and, often, hidden) in questions of aesthetics...
— Oct 07, 2019 05:09AM
