Los márgenes de la pantalla: efectos de vacío en la imagen televisiva

Abstract

The television discourse is characterized by the continuous presentation of programs; an emission in which the maximum concentration of contents in the shape of fiction, information or advertising prevails. These contents are articulated by some dominant enunciative forms; forms that facilitate the production of those programs and the recognition on the part of the audience. Within that hegemonic language exist some rules assumed organically by the television industry, among the ones that two prohibitions are counted: the emptiness and the silence. But the television discourse also possesses, in that "sequence of flow" that is the programming, some zones of half-light: vacuities and silences that, whether for technical limitations or by a break with the codes established, they slide along the television programming. They are exactly those slippings, those marginal zones, the ones that will be analyzed in this work from a small repertoire of cases, chiefly extracted of segments of continuity and informative pieces. It would treat then to perceive and to appreciate those spurious areas, for thus find a new sense, perhaps not deliberate, but likewise significant.