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The idea of direct speech in television is an anachronism, perhaps even in the
theatre; but with "live to tape", the frequency of reruns, etc. what was direct
or the illusion of direct is now quotation and distanciation even when its not
intended in a Brechtian manner. As Ben Alpers notes, even the most self-reflexi
   ve gestures on television become conventionalized ways of reassuring us of th
   e
truth of the foreground/frame as true against the background-as-illusion. We
need to think then of the effects of truth and illusion. Trinh Minh-Ha pace
Foucault makes this clear in cahpter 2 of her When the Mon Moon Waxes Red (1991)
   Rob Morgan. [log in to unmask]

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