What is it about?
Is television an art or a medium? I argue that TV is an art composed of many media. This paper disputes the notion that television is a 'medium'. It argues instead that TV is an art composed of many media. Individual programmes employ various media available to television and also to other arts. This has been true throughout TV's history.
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Why is it important?
This paper makes useful distinctions between 'art' and 'medium'. These distinctions help us to: develop our conceptual understanding of what television is; situate TV in relation to other arts; and appraise and appreciate TV works (programmes) . Via its reconfiguration of ‘medium/media’, it challenges narrowly contemporary notions of the televisual, positing a more historicised model and situating television alongside other arts — amongst friends.
Perspectives
This paper uses a perspective inspired by analytic aesthetics to help develop our understanding of TV as a contemporary, popular art form.
Sarah Cardwell
University of Kent
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This page is a summary of: Television Amongst Friends: Medium, Art, Media, Critical Studies in Television The International Journal of Television Studies, September 2014, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.7227/cst.9.3.2.
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