Talking Heads

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Whereas theater is primarily a verbal medium, film and television are visual (compare the monologues of Shakespeare's (English poet and playwright, c.1564-1616) plays to the sparse dialog of today's movies). A news item that may have been given thousands of words in a newspaper is reduced into a ninety-second spot on television, condensing the events of the world and removing us further from the word and the text in terms of its mediation of our language and thought. Who today really has time to read the newspaper cover to cover? Is it that we lack the ability to concentrate, or the fact that the television has conditioned us to think only about the surface of things?






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Introduction | Gesture | Sound | Object | Image | Word | Writing | Rise of Electronic Metafora

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