Melodrama Variations: TV Soap Opera (Discussion) - Revision history

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 ==External links==
-*[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T440/SoapOperaIllustrations.php#ATWTstyle "Notes on the Soap Opera Apparatus" Illustrations]
+*[https://tvcrit.org/Classes/Jbutler/T440/SoapOperaIllustrations.php#ATWTstyle "Notes on the Soap Opera Apparatus" Illustrations]
 **[http://tvstylebook.com/galleries/01/ "Television and Zero-Degree Style" illustrations]
 ***[http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/jbutler/clips/atwt20080201.mp4 Video clip] [http://tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/ATWT01.php Local copy of video clip]
 *Jeremy G. Butler, "'I'm Not a Doctor, But I Play One on TV' Illustrations
-**[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/SoapOpera01.php ATWT commutation test video clip]
+**[https://tvcrit.org/EO/DV/SoapOpera01.php ATWT commutation test video clip]
-**[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T440/SoapOperaIllustrations.php#RyanRunyeon More on Meg Ryan and Frank Runyeon]
+**[https://tvcrit.org/Classes/Jbutler/T440/SoapOperaIllustrations.php#RyanRunyeon More on Meg Ryan and Frank Runyeon]
-**[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/ATWTAlums.htm ''ATWT'' alumni.]
+**[https://tvcrit.org/EO/ATWTAlums.htm ''ATWT'' alumni.]
-**Johanna Schneller, [http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T577/ryan.htm "Meg Ryan"], ''Us Weekly'', April 1998, pp. 50-54, 96.
+**Johanna Schneller, [https://tvcrit.org/Classes/Jbutler/T577/ryan.htm "Meg Ryan"], ''Us Weekly'', April 1998, pp. 50-54, 96.
 [[Category:JCM412/512 Discussion]]

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 '''"'I'm Not a Doctor, But I Play One on TV'"'''
-[[Image:ATWTRyan.jpg|thumb|400px|left|Screen shot of Frank Runyeon and Meg Ryan in ''As the World Turns'' (1984).]]
+<gallery mode="packed" heights=400px>
-[[Image:ATWTFrost.jpg|thumb|400px|left|Screen shot of Frank Runyeon and Lindsay Frost in ''As the World Turns'' (1985).]]
+File:ATWTRyan.jpg|alt=Screen shot of Frank Runyeon and Meg Ryan in ''As the World Turns'' (1984).|Screen shot of Frank Runyeon and Meg Ryan in ''As the World Turns'' (1984).
 #'''Groups 5 and 1''': How does Jean-Louis Comolli's notion of a "body too much" in historical film apply to the soap opera?
 #*What is the "commutation test"? How does it apply to soap-opera recasting?
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 '''"Television and Zero-Degree Style"'''
-[[Image:Fig113 ATWT20080201qq00 30 40qq00020.jpg|left|thumb|400px|Katie and Brad in an ''As the World Turns'' screen shot, from :30:40 in the episode broadcast 1 Feb 2008.]]
+<gallery mode="packed" heights=400px>
 #What are the main characteristics of soap opera's style of sound and image? And what significance do they have? In other words, what/how does style ''signify'' in terms of:
 #*'''Groups 5 and 1''': Sets? Lighting?

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 [[Image:ATWTRyan.jpg|thumb|400px|left|Screen shot of Frank Runyeon and Meg Ryan in ''As the World Turns'' (1984).]]
 [[Image:ATWTFrost.jpg|thumb|400px|left|Screen shot of Frank Runyeon and Lindsay Frost in ''As the World Turns'' (1985).]]
-#'''Group 5''': How does Jean-Louis Comolli's notion of a "body too much" in historical film apply to the soap opera?
+#'''Groups 5 and 1''': How does Jean-Louis Comolli's notion of a "body too much" in historical film apply to the soap opera?
-#'''Group 1''': What is the "commutation test"? How does it apply to soap-opera recasting?
+#*What is the "commutation test"? How does it apply to soap-opera recasting?
-#'''Group 2''': How do Lindsey Frost's character/performance signs differ from Meg Ryan's? What meaning does that difference connote?
+#'''Groups 3 and 4''': How do Lindsey Frost's character/performance signs differ from Meg Ryan's? What meaning does that difference connote?
-#'''Groups 3 and 4''': What makes Meg Ryan an atypical soap star?
+#'''Groups 6 and 2''': What makes Meg Ryan an atypical soap star?
 #*How does the position of soap actors resemble that of early-film actors?
-'''All Groups''': How might the commutation test be used with Humphrey Bogart's Charlie Allnut character in ''African Queen''? Pick another actor and perform a commutation test on Charlie Allnut.
+'''All Groups''': How might the commutation test be used with Humphrey Bogart's Dixon Steele character in ''In a Lonely Place''? Pick another actor and perform a commutation test on Dixon.
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 [[Image:Fig113 ATWT20080201qq00 30 40qq00020.jpg|left|thumb|400px|Katie and Brad in an ''As the World Turns'' screen shot, from :30:40 in the episode broadcast 1 Feb 2008.]]
 #What are the main characteristics of soap opera's style of sound and image? And what significance do they have? In other words, what/how does style ''signify'' in terms of:
-#*'''Group 5''': Sets? Lighting?
+#*'''Groups 5 and 1''': Sets? Lighting?
-#*'''Groups 1 & 2''': Multiple-camera production?  ''In terms of how it looks on the screen'', how does multiple-camera production differ from single-camera production?
+#*'''Groups 3 and 4''': Multiple-camera production?  ''In terms of how it looks on the screen'', how does multiple-camera production differ from single-camera production?
-#*'''Group 3 & 4''': Dialogue? Music? How are these characteristics present (or not) in the scene from ''ATWT'' episode we viewed in class? How would you compare/contrast the sound in ''ATWT'' with that of the radio soap, ''Backstage Wife''?
+#*'''Groups 6 and 2''': Dialogue? Music? How are these characteristics present (or not) in the scene from ''ATWT'' episode we viewed in class? How would you compare/contrast the sound in ''ATWT'' with that of the radio soap, ''Backstage Wife''?
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 ==2010 Ratings==
-Total Viewers (Compared to Previous Week/Compared to Previsou Year). Boldfaced shows are still on the air as of spring 2016.
+Total Viewers (Compared to Previous Week/Compared to Previsou Year). Boldfaced shows are still on the air as of spring 2018.
 #'''Y&R 5,103,000 (+17,000/-13,000)'''

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