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Screen 2009 50(2):216-232; doi:10.1093/screen/hjp004
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Screen. All rights reserved

TV on the brain

Amelie Hastie


  Abstract

This essay provides an examination of televisual representations of the process of perception. Focusing in part on MRI sequences in fictional dramas, which offer a visualization of the brain as the very organ of perception, this essay offers a subsequent analysis of an array of perceptual possibilities for the television viewer. In most medical dramas that show them, images of the brain are literally stilled and distilled through the MRI and filtered through television, so that the two become related scenes – or screens – of perception. Hence ‘TV on the brain’ argues that MRI sequences invite us to bridge televisual narrative and representation and the forms of our experiences as television viewers. Moreover, recognizing the contrasting, yet intersecting, forms of realism in medical discourse, in television, and through perceptual experiences can direct us to begin to understand the limits and possibilities of televisual perception. This essay thus brings together a number of concerns and scholarly practices in order to argue that our very experience as television viewers inherently includes the process of interpretation.


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