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==The television series==
 
==The television series==

Revision as of 15:26, 24 August 2010

Classical Hollywood cinema

Choose a classical film that everyone in your group has seen. Explain how it fits the classical implementation of:

  1. Single protagonist
  2. Exposition
  3. Motivation
  4. Narrative enigma
  5. Cause-effect chain
  6. Climax
  7. Resolution

Group examples

  • G1:

The television series

Break down the "Rudy's Sick" episode from the Cosby Show (13 December 1984) -- view all shots.

How many scenes does it have?

Explain how it does or does not exemplify conventional television-series narrative structure:

  1. Multiple protagonists
  2. Exposition
  3. Motivation
  4. Narrative problematic
  5. Cause-effect chain
  6. Climax
  7. Resolution

The television serial

How does the serial differ from the series in terms of narrative components?

Bibliography

  1. Butler, Jeremy G. Television: Critical Methods and Applications. Mahweh, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007.

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