Close Encounters on Screen.
The article discusses the consistent overuse of close-ups in the film and television industry. One example occurs in televised baseball where the game's paradigm fades in favor of a frenetic attention to individual players. According to sports media historian Gerry Whannel, from 1966 to the 1980s, t...
| Publicado en: | Genders no. 29; pp. 5 - 6 |
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New York University Press
1999
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| Sumario: | The article discusses the consistent overuse of close-ups in the film and television industry. One example occurs in televised baseball where the game's paradigm fades in favor of a frenetic attention to individual players. According to sports media historian Gerry Whannel, from 1966 to the 1980s, the close-up went from an incidental atmospheric component to the central constituent of sports television. The shift to the close-up as a primary televisual element accompanied the increasing comodification of players as personalities. Close-ups also provide the illusion of a more concrete and factual version of the facts and mechanical connection that constitute the imagined versions of procreation. |
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