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#Butler and Fiske both discuss Stuart Hall's theory of media '''encoding''' and '''decoding'''. What do these terms mean? (Butler discusses it in the section of chapter 13 on ideology.)
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#*Fiske then discusses "three broad ''reading'' strategies" to account for how decoding operates.  (Butler refers to the same principle as "different ideological positions".)
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#'''Group 1:''' Explain Antonio Gramsci's (pronounced "GRAM-chee") concept of '''hegemony'''. Provide an example of hegemony in action.
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#'''All Groups:''' Explain John Fiske's idea of '''discourse'''. Using ''The Beverly Hillbillies'' episode we viewed for specifics: How would you describe the "hillbilly" discourse and how it conflicts with the "Beverly Hills" discourse?
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#Fiske paraphrases David Morley:  "Morley defines reading a television text as that moment when the discourses of the reader meet the discourses of the text" (302).
 
  
 
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#Perform a ''dominant'' reading of ''My So-Called Life''. What would be the result of your reading in terms of representations of gender and sexuality, ethnicity, and youth (vs. middle age)?
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#Perform a ''dominant-hegemonic'' reading of ''My So-Called Life''. What would be the result of your reading in terms of representations of gender and sexuality, ethnicity, and youth (vs. middle age)?
 
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== Bibliography ==

Revision as of 19:19, 16 November 2010

Basic principles

  1. Group 4: Explain the original concept of ideology and how Marx connected it to social classes.
  2. Group 1: Explain Antonio Gramsci's (pronounced "GRAM-chee") concept of hegemony. Provide an example of hegemony in action.
  3. Group 2: Explain what the television apparatus is and Stuart Hall's theory of media encoding.
  4. Group 3: Explain Stuart Hall's theory of media decoding.
  5. All Groups: Explain John Fiske's idea of discourse. Using The Beverly Hillbillies episode we viewed for specifics: How would you describe the "hillbilly" discourse and how it conflicts with the "Beverly Hills" discourse?

Group 4

  1. Perform a dominant-hegemonic reading of My So-Called Life. What would be the result of your reading in terms of representations of gender and sexuality, ethnicity, and youth (vs. middle age)?
  2. How could your reading be restated using Morley's notion of discourses encountering one another?

Group 2

  1. Perform a oppositional reading of My So-Called Life. What would be the result of your reading in terms of representations of gender and sexuality, ethnicity, and youth (vs. middle age)?
  2. How could your reading be restated using Morley's notion of discourses encountering one another?

Group 1

  1. Perform a negotiated reading of My So-Called Life. What would be the result of your reading in terms of representations of gender and sexuality, ethnicity, and youth (vs. middle age)?
  2. How could your reading be restated using Morley's notion of discourses encountering one another?

Group 3

  1. What do you feel is the preferred reading of this episode? What is the preferred reading in terms of representations of gender and sexuality, ethnicity, and youth (vs. middle age)?

Bibliography

  1. Butler, Jeremy G. Television: Critical Methods and Applications. Mahweh, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007.
  2. Robert C. Allen, Channels of Discourse, Reassembled, second edition (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992).

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