Fahrenheit 451
The dystopian reality in which Fahrenheit 451 drags us into is essentially based in a society where forms of media are seen as a threat, since they have the ability to distract viewers from all sorts of relevant issues. Books are literally burned and outcast by television, whereas independent thought is considered to be a high concern to the government, therefore muted by the “cooling” effect of the television, a coherent idea with McLuhan’s approach to the roles of different media.
Television has taken over people’s ability to question, and has been making them infatuated with its content, serving as a replacement to real life, turning them into anti-intellectual beings. The banned storybook contents are replaced by an illusion of creative leisure projected through television.
Through this idea, the literary work written by Ray Bradbury embraces a redesign and editorial process, sustained by a metaphor which encompasses the concept: distortion on the development of critical discernment, due to the interference in textual content and oppression by the government via television.
The editorial work presents a proportional measure similar to 4:3 TV screens when it’s open, with a visual narrative that illustrates erased excerpts from the text that posteriorly are displaced over the page, and graphic elements creating a visual tension that emphasis the idea of a TV glitch, which in turn leads the reader to experience the difficulty that is reading a “forbidden” book.
Fahrenheit 451
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Flávio Bernardes
Flávio Bernardes
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Flávio Bernardes
