The medium in crisis
Caughie, Brunsdon and the problem of US television
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10494746 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joshua Jacobs (0000-0003-1807-6882, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 503-511 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Screen (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-9543 • E-ISSN: 1460-2474 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/screen/hjr051 |
| OpenAlex | W2079148907 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The sense of an ending seems to be inherent to the problem of cultural overproduction, caught up in the thought that value itself cannot withstand the dilution of quality by quantity. Cormac McCarthy's musing implies that the fact that we ever could discern value was a historical accident, a blip in the future plenitude of washed-out mediocrity: I don't know what of our culture is going to survive, or if we survive. If you look at the Greek plays, they're really good. And there's just a handful of them. Well, how good would they be if there were 2,500 of them? But that's the future looking back at us. Anything you can think of, there's going to be millions of them. Just the sheer number of things will devalue them. I don't care whether it's art, literature, poetry or drama, whatever. The sheer volume of it will wash it out. I mean, if you had thousands of Greek plays to read, would they be that good? I don't think so.1
Accident (philosophy · Aesthetics · Art · Drama · Epistemology · Form of the Good · Literature · Mediocrity principle · Poetry · Quality (philosophy · Value (mathematics · History · Mathematics · Media Studies and Communication · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |