hearing if and how your opinion of a particular piece of entertainment changed when you applied Adorno’s critique to it. Did your appreciation for the series grow? Did it deteriorate? How and why?
In his chapter How to Look at Television, Adorno lays out some very clearly defined critiques of the televisual medium, attacking the quality of TVs content, the duplicity of TVs messaging, and the harmful limitations that the format of TV programming imposes upon narrative art (storytelling). As you read the chapter I want you to … Read more