TV vs. live, and the Show as spectacle — mediation and Show-economics texture
echoes
From: Federer Both Flesh and Not
- Early text: "TV tennis is to live tennis pretty much as video
porn is to the felt reality of human love"; broadcast's "certain illusion of
intimacy", whose replays and close-ups so privilege the viewer that "we’re not
even aware of how much is lost in broadcast". [the televisability passage]
[e-text]
- IJ echo: IJ's mediation critique — the gap between lived experience and its
broadcast/entertainment surrogate (the EUP line about television's spurious
intimacy carried into the novel's Entertainment/InterLace culture); and, for
the tennis world specifically, "the Show" (the professional tour the E.T.A.
juniors point toward) rendered here as branded spectacle — the buttermilk-colored
Nike sport coat, the Ralph Lauren linesmen's uniforms, TV contracts,
Wimbledon's relentless self-branding.
- Weight: shared-preoccupation (texture)