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“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.”

Moving Situation Television Performances Currents Theatre Irony Discussion Discourse Examination Replicate Live Performance Current Situation Replication Live Theatre

Book:Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture

Source: Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture

“The six and one-fourth hours' television watching (the American average per day) which non-reading children do is what is called alpha-level learning. The mind needn't make any pictures since the pictures are provided, so the mind cuts current as low as it can.”

Mind Children Reading Hours Levels Cutting Television Six Lows Average Currents Fourth Alphas Television Watching

Book:The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature

Source: The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature

“The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.”

Wonderful Events Television Impact Currents Wonderful Things Current Events

Author:Will McDonough

“It is precisely those members of Congress who have had the most to do with creating the risks that led to the current economic crisis who are making the most noise against others, and summoning people before their committee to be browbeaten and humiliated on nationwide television.”

People Risk Economic Television Members Creating Crisis Congress Currents Noise Committees Humiliated Economic Crisis Summoning

Book:Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

“One of the more problematic aspects of the current state of cinema in Japan is that the movies playing in the theaters are by and large made not by film studios but by broadcasting companies. They're either extensions of popular television dramas or adaptations of manga or anime. Younger Japanese are simply not being exposed to good films. That situation needs to change.”