Crary assignment

Title Your Name Subject and Section Professor’s Name Date The concept of spectacle as captured in Jonathan Crary’s book “Spectacle, Attention, Counter-Memory” encompasses the power of visuality and its impact on contemporary society. He highlights three significant origins of the contemporary spectacle: the audio-visual supremacy of television, the immediate synchronism of the audio and image in film, and the rising of fascism (Crary, 1989). This paper tries to explore how these two origins consolidated or contributed in making spectacle more popular. Technical Perfection of Television Television changed mass communication through introducing images and sounds straight into the people's homes. The technical greatness of TV, which is capable of transmitting high-quality pictures and sounds, played a primary role in the consolidation and affirmation of the spectacle. Television became the main instrument through which spectacle was promoted to the masses (Crary, 1989). Television, with the ever-increasing capacity to reach large audiences in unison, became an important means of molding public views and behavior. The unceasing pounding of pictures and sound bites on TV sets led to the massification of the spectacle in the modern world. Advertisers, politicians, and other special interests deployed television to play a role in the manipulation and control of how public perception...