A term or concept · 2016 · Television
Peak TV and the parasocial bargain
Prestige television as a sustained parasocial bargain: writers, actors and marketing presenting themselves as authors of a world viewers inhabit.
The high-water mark of the writer as parasocial object. Showrunners were discussed with the intimacy previously reserved for characters, and the parasocial frame explains the intensity better than any account of television as art does.
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