Stanley Cavell's article was difficult for me to read. He spent so much time on scrutinizing terminologies and so I feel as if I didn't get too much out of his article.
Q1: Cavell explains that the TV as a medium is of boredom and poverty. He says poverty is defined as "our failure [...] to grasp what the meduym is for, what constitutes its powers and its treasures" (194). I understand his definition of poverty, but what does he mean when he says that TV programs "can appear to be their poverty" (194)? Are programs the treasures and powers that we need to understand?
Q2: In this article, Cavell states that movies are grouped into genres and TV is grouped into serials and episodes. Is he trying to prove why this is or how that is relevant in that we are not as interested in the medium of movies compared to the of TV? What is important about these groupings?
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