RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

the object of TV presentation. This means the TV production can do without the "middleman” of simuiation, reconstructed reality. And in the reconstruction of reality aesthetic rules certainly prevail over living experience. In contrast, the design of a television presentation produced as a symbolic representation directly related to the reality being experiences does away with two-step communication. The audience is related directly to living action with its real configurations and actors, people who actually and not theatrically play given roles and аге witnessed doing so during the precise duration of the TV production. Consequently, with the appearance of television, the entertainment production as a vehicle for the dissemination of information changed fundamentally and was incalculably enriched. Ву eliminating reconstruction from the design of the TV production, the "middleman” between the event and its symbolic representation disappeared. The distance was reduced between real and representation and the TV production provided the form for a regular f!ow of living events. Mediation disappeared between an event, whether involving the action of objects or senses, and its symbolic representation, and the relationship was established of actual events at one end and their symbolic representation at the other, but with the actual events conforming, as we have said, to the rules of living not imaginary experience. This it makes it very unlikely that the TV production will ever suffer what is regularly the fate of filmed ог staged productions when the reality presented by the show is to such an extent a complex of derived realities as to preclude the inclusion ог even suggestion of certain of the most authentic aspects of the reality being represented. In TV representations, reality is most often revealed and recognized directly, thus avoiding the danger of symbolic discrepancies in meaning and the raise obstacles these can raise, in many cases of metaphoric, symbolic representations, to communication with a wide audience. This is the basis