"TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of……" — Marshall McLuhan

"TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion orclosing of the TV image, that the actor must achieve a great degree of spontaneous casualness that would be irrelevant in movie and lost on the stage. For the audienceparticipates in the inner life ofthe TV actor as fully as in the outer life of the movie star. Technically, TV tends to be a close-up medium. The close-up that in the movie is used for shock is, on TV, a quite casual thing."

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