The Critical View And Television: Horace Newcomb

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A more ritual analysis of the genre is provided by the author of publications such as Television: The Critical View and TV: The Most Popular Art: Horace Newcomb. Newcomb suggests that the genre is basic in nature; it is limited in its capability of ambivalence, development and challenge to the spectator’s values. Like Grote, he is concerned with the genre’s apparent inability to diverge from or expand its “rigid structure” – consisting in the transparent, reassuring problem-and-solution formula – where the “only movement is toward the alleviation of the complication and the reduction of confusion” (Newcomb, 1974). Newcomb then turns his attention to the subgenre of “domestic comedy”, where the program focuses on a person rather than a situation.

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