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==''Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture''== | ==''Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture''== | ||
− | '''Group 1:''' | + | #'''Group 1:''' Explain the work of "evaluative" and "descriptive" stylisticians. What might they find study in ''The Mindy Project''? |
− | + | #'''Group 2:''' Explain the work of "analytic" stylisticians. How would you study ''The Mindy Project''? Devise a research project that you might attempt with this TV text. Be sure to account for the following "functions" of style discussed in the textbook. | |
− | '''Group 2:''' | + | #*symbolize |
− | *symbolize | + | #*decorate |
− | *decorate | + | #'''Group 3:''' Pretend you are an "analytic" stylistician. How would you study ''The Mindy Project''? Devise a research project that you might attempt with this TV text. Be sure to account for the following "functions" of style discussed in the textbook. |
− | + | #*persuade | |
− | '''Group 3:''' Pretend you are an "analytic" stylistician. How would you study ''The Mindy Project''? Devise a research project that you might attempt with this TV text. Be sure to account for the following "functions" of style discussed in the textbook. | + | #*hail or interpellate |
− | *persuade | + | #*differentiate |
− | *hail or interpellate | + | #'''Groups 4:''' Pretend you are a "historical" stylistician. How would you study ''The Mindy Project''? Devise a research project that you might attempt with this TV text. Be sure to account for "craft practices" and "schemas." |
− | *differentiate | ||
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− | '''Groups 4:''' Pretend you are a "historical" stylistician. How would you study ''The Mindy Project''? Devise a research project that you might attempt with this TV text. Be sure to account for "craft practices" and "schemas." | ||
=="Televisuality and the Resurrection of the Sitcom in the 2000s"== | =="Televisuality and the Resurrection of the Sitcom in the 2000s"== |
Revision as of 18:12, 21 October 2020
Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture
- Group 1: Explain the work of "evaluative" and "descriptive" stylisticians. What might they find study in The Mindy Project?
- Group 2: Explain the work of "analytic" stylisticians. How would you study The Mindy Project? Devise a research project that you might attempt with this TV text. Be sure to account for the following "functions" of style discussed in the textbook.
- symbolize
- decorate
- Group 3: Pretend you are an "analytic" stylistician. How would you study The Mindy Project? Devise a research project that you might attempt with this TV text. Be sure to account for the following "functions" of style discussed in the textbook.
- persuade
- hail or interpellate
- differentiate
- Groups 4: Pretend you are a "historical" stylistician. How would you study The Mindy Project? Devise a research project that you might attempt with this TV text. Be sure to account for "craft practices" and "schemas."
"Televisuality and the Resurrection of the Sitcom in the 2000s"
View a scene from The Mindy Project (see Blackboard and screenshots online).
- All Groups: List at least three aspects of the The Mindy Project scene that mark it as single-camera production.
- All groups: Table 5.3 in "Televisuality and the Resurrection of the Sitcom in the 2000s" lists elements of the "single-camera televisual schema". Is The Mindy Project "televisual", in addition to being a single-camera production? Identify any elements from this table in the scene.
Bibliography
- Butler, Jeremy G. Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture. NY: Routledge, 2018.
- Butler, Jeremy G. "Televisuality and the Resurrection of the Sitcom in the 2000s," in Television Style (NY: Routledge, 2010), 173-222.