| We can study television and film by looking at how individuals and groups experience and interact with these media. The phenomenological concepts of reversibility and intersubjectivity provide us with a starting point by showing us how the (post)modern lived world can be understood by looking at its subject-object dynamics. In other words, these ideas begin to show us how and where the existential essence of the subjective and objective simultaneity of experience/existence may be passed through a consideration of media studies. We may then use Trilling's historical overview of the sincere and the authentic, and McLuhan's ideas of figure-ground paradigms and tetradic media laws, to create a multidimensional approach to media studies that is experience-based--the resonance thesis. We then can take other "experiential" approaches to film and television and consider them to be resonant studies, since they all take into account, in one form or another, a basic subject-object dynamism. The use of the resonant approach for particular media can then be used to study a (post)modern media culture in general, namely the current group of individuals referred to as "Generation X" or the "twenty-somethings."... |
