“If television once could be seen as ranking among a number of vehicles for conveying expression or information from which we could choose, we no longer have that choice: the televisual has become an intrinsic and determining element of our cultural formation.” IfsChoicesNumbersInformationTelevisionExpressionElementsVehicleFormationRankingConveying Book:Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture Source: Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture
“To move from a discussion of the early relationship between theatre and television to an examination of the current situation of live performance is to confront the irony that whereas television initially sought to replicate and, implicitly, to replace live theatre, live performance itself has developed since that time toward the replication of the discourse of mediatization.” MovingSituationTelevisionPerformancesCurrentsTheatreIronyDiscussionDiscourseExaminationReplicateLive PerformanceCurrent SituationReplicationLive Theatre Book:Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture Source: Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture