Table of Contents

Contents: Ruth Lorand: The Aesthetic Aspects of Television - Germina Nagat: Aesthetics of the Image-Wired World - Alexander Nehamas: Serious Watching - David Goldblatt: Running Reruns, Vacillating Channels: Toward an Expanded Reception Theory of Television - Eddy M. Zemach: What Do We See on TV? - Kathleen Marie Higgins: Television, Realism, and the Distortion of Time - Andrew Ballantyne: Architectonics of The Box: Television's Spatiality - Eran Guter: Anti-Mimesis Live - Rob van Gerwen: Television as an Art: On Humiliation-TV - Katya Mandoki: The Secret Door: Reception Aesthetics of Telenovela - Sally Banes: TV-Dancing Women: Music Videos, Camera-Choreography, and Feminist Theory - Charles Leech: The TV Trailer: Enigma, The Matrix, and the Aesthetics of Choral Violence.

About the Author

The Editor: Ruth Lorand is Chair of the Department of Philosophy, the University of Haifa. A professor of philosophy, she has published mainly in aesthetics and issues of concerning order and disorder. Her recent book is Aesthetic Order - A Philosophy of Order, Beauty and Art (2000).