Audience reception is itself a moment of the television production process

Evidence

What is interesting is the way the audience’s sympathies are manipulated. Alex is a siren, then she is sick and mad and dangerous; she has no human feelings that we need take into account, and when Glenn Close manifests them, with a haunted and poignant face, she is acting against the drift of the direction. But when—at an early date—Dan sets the law on the troublesome harpy, and when he suggests she abort her child, and when he half-strangles her, we must somehow sympathize with him. It is the casting that sets this up. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 330 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Audience readings range from dominant through negotiated to oppositional stances. — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 1409; Television production is not a closed system but draws from wider society; Audiences can decode the same message in a globally contrary or oppositional way (+2 more)

Related

• Casting can steer audience sympathy against the script’s intent (similarity 0.88)

Broader Connections

• Television production is not a closed system but draws from wider society #expands (0.70)
• Audiences can decode the same message in a globally contrary or oppositional way #expands (0.55)
• Casting can steer audience sympathy against the script’s intent #exemplifies (0.35) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 330