Eyes out of your head: On televisual experience
- 1 December 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Critical Studies in Mass Communication
- Vol. 6 (4) , 387-403
- https://doi.org/10.1080/15295038909366764
Abstract
This essay empirically explores some of the bodily practices that organize and define televisual experience. From an initial clustering of interview responses, three thematic categories emerge: (1) The experience of the captive phenomenal body and (2) the escape from the cognitive body, both of which combine to produce (3) the discovery of a body‐in‐difference. Thus, televisual experience may be defined as an “eyes out of your head”; phenomenon—not locatable in any one of the five human senses nor in any one viewing body. Rather, televisual experience is a complex ensemble of bodily practices.Keywords
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