Piers Britton reflects on the unacknowledged divergences in use of the term “aesthetic” within television studies, and suggests that some of the elisions are leading to unproductive argument.
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The Aesthetic Turn
“Television Aesthetics” versus Formal and Stylistic Analysis
The Aesthetic Turn: Toward a Television Aesthetic (Again)
How do we teach television aesthetics, and what does it mean to analyze or evaluate television aesthetics?
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Google’s Aesthetic Turn: One Simple Beautiful Useful Google
In this latest entry in the Aesthetic Turn series, Megan Sapnar Ankerson explores how Google's aesthetic shift from "transparency" to "beauty" serves as a site for critical engagement with the aesthetics of digital artifacts.
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The Aesthetic Turn: In Search of the Pictorial Intelligence
Colin Burnett continues our Aesthetic Turn series with a call to revise our thinking about moving image intelligence beyond just language and verbal systems of thought.
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The Aesthetic Turn: Media Aesthetics: Color for the Where and How
In this latest entry in The Aesthetic Turn series, Carolyn Kane looks to color and color studies to provide a fresh and unique lens to articulate a theory of media aesthetics.
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The Aesthetic Turn: How Media Translate, or, Why Do I Like Chase Scenes?
In this latest entry in The Aesthetic Turn series, Kyle Conway considers the aesthetic experience of media, using translation and metaphor to turn our attention away from the object and toward our experience of media in the age of convergence.
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The Aesthetic Turn: Cultural Studies and the Question of Aesthetic Experience
In this inaugural post in Antenna's new series on cultural studies and media aesthetics, "The Aesthetic Turn," Kyle Conway queries media's experiential dimensions.
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