RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

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Božidar Kalezić TELEVISION FORTRESS ON WINGS

(Televizija - Tvrđava koja leti) Essays

Television director and publicist Božidar Kalezić had a book of essays on television published by The Čirpanov Press of Novi Sad at the end of 1978. It was edited by Boško Ivkov, and reviewed by Professor Ratko Božović, who also wrote the foreword - Torvards Real Television. Kalezić’s questfor the nature and function of television is presented in a string of essays which, like a ’sequence‘, run on from chapter to chapter in this latest book on television. In the chapter on System of Averting Reality the titles аге: Green Grass of Му Home, Tiger in a Cage with Low Bars; Flying Housewife, Avertng Reality. In Accidental Reminder: Emotive Definition, Accidental Reminder, Forms Substituting for Events, and Fortress on Wings [’TV-bad', a pun with the Serbian ’TV-rdjava‘ (cf. tvrđava), was a variant brought up in a discussion of the book at the Student Town Tribunel. Fridge in the Bedroom is the title of the next chapter and its first essay, next come: Against the Visual, and Between Thought and Action. Limits of Space consists of one essay, A Close-up Total, with 29 appendices. In the chapter Betzveen the Visual and the Tactual Kalezić reflects cn Television between the Visuai and the Tactile and on the Complex of Tight Living Spaces. Finally

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