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  • Television Delivers People (1973)
  • Short | 7 min | Short
Television Delivers People (1973)
Short | 7 min | Short
Television Delivers People is a seminal work in the now well-established critique of popular media as an instrument of social control that asserts itself subtly on the populace through "entertainments," for the benefit of those in ...See moreTelevision Delivers People is a seminal work in the now well-established critique of popular media as an instrument of social control that asserts itself subtly on the populace through "entertainments," for the benefit of those in power-the corporations that mantain and profit from the status quo. While canned Muzak plays, a scrolling text denounces the corporate masquerade of commercial television to reveal the structure of profit that greases the wheels of the media industry. Television emerges as little more than a insidious sponsor for the corporate engines of the world. By appropriating the medium he is criticizing-using television, in effect, against itself-Serra employs a characteristic strategy of early, counter-corporate video collectives-a strategy that remains integral to video artists committed to a critical dismantling of the media's political and ideological stranglehold. See less
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Richard Serra | Carlota Schoolman (co-director) (as Carlota Fay Schoolman)
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Updated Dec 31, 1973
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1973 (United States)

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