The Great Television Variety of Carmelo

Abstract

In his television stagings Carmelo Bene shows that he is fully aware of the specific nature of the electronic medium, through which technical and linguistic tools he leads the destructuring of the text and the study of the phoné and subverts the standardized rules of television prose programs. When he intervenes as a guest on television programs of all kinds – even in the most banal and vulgar – Bene “is at the game”, imposes his his- trionic presence and gives life to a Great Variety in which he highlights the irreducible contrast between the reality of his poetry and the unreality of the “imbecile” tv.