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Each student will select a half-hour TV comedy and analyze its use of humor. Elements of the analysis include: | Each student will select a half-hour TV comedy and analyze its use of humor. Elements of the analysis include: | ||
| − | #Recaps (short summaries of the plots) of five episodes. | + | #'''Recaps (short summaries of the plots) of five episodes.''' |
#*Post to your Blackboard ''journal''. '''Due each week, starting October 11th.''' | #*Post to your Blackboard ''journal''. '''Due each week, starting October 11th.''' | ||
| − | # | + | #'''Oral presentation and written analysis of your sitcom.''' |
| − | #*Discuss how it plays out in two specific episodes (using the recaps for reference) | + | ##Identify the show's narrative problematic. |
| − | # | + | ##*Discuss how it plays out in two specific episodes (using the recaps for reference). |
| − | #*Explain the theories of humor first and then provide at least two examples for each theory | + | ##Discuss of ''specific'' examples of theories of humor: superiority, relief/release, and incongruity. |
| − | #*Use the analysis of ''Modern Family'' in ''The Sitcom'' as a model for analysis. | + | ##*Explain the theories of humor first and then provide at least two examples for each theory. |
| − | #*Present your findings to the class during the week before Thanksgiving (11/15 and 11/17). | + | ##*Use the analysis of ''Modern Family'' in ''The Sitcom'' as a model for analysis. |
| − | #**Groups A & B on November 15th, Groups C & D on November 17th. | + | #*'''Present your findings to the class during the week before Thanksgiving (11/15 and 11/17).''' |
| − | #*Collect your findings into a 1,500-word essay and submit it via Blackboard/TurnItIn. Due Friday, 11/18, 11:59 p.m. | + | #**'''Groups A & B on November 15th, Groups C & D on November 17th.''' |
| − | #Worth 45 points. | + | #*'''Collect your findings into a 1,500-word essay and submit it via Blackboard/TurnItIn. Due Friday, 11/18, 11:59 p.m.''' |
| + | #*Worth 45 points. | ||
Revision as of 18:26, 4 October 2022
Each student will select a half-hour TV comedy and analyze its use of humor. Elements of the analysis include:
- Recaps (short summaries of the plots) of five episodes.
- Post to your Blackboard journal. Due each week, starting October 11th.
- Oral presentation and written analysis of your sitcom.
- Identify the show's narrative problematic.
- Discuss how it plays out in two specific episodes (using the recaps for reference).
- Discuss of specific examples of theories of humor: superiority, relief/release, and incongruity.
- Explain the theories of humor first and then provide at least two examples for each theory.
- Use the analysis of Modern Family in The Sitcom as a model for analysis.
- Present your findings to the class during the week before Thanksgiving (11/15 and 11/17).
- Groups A & B on November 15th, Groups C & D on November 17th.
- Collect your findings into a 1,500-word essay and submit it via Blackboard/TurnItIn. Due Friday, 11/18, 11:59 p.m.
- Worth 45 points.
- Identify the show's narrative problematic.
