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#Define "denotation" and "connotation." What are the denotations and connotations of the ''Wonder Years''' opening montage? What does semiotician Roland Barthes mean by the term, "myth"? Is there a "binary opposition" to be found in this montage? | #Define "denotation" and "connotation." What are the denotations and connotations of the ''Wonder Years''' opening montage? What does semiotician Roland Barthes mean by the term, "myth"? Is there a "binary opposition" to be found in this montage? | ||
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| + | *Human on the moon | ||
| + | *Hippie bus -- Wavy Gravy, basis for the ''The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test'' by Ken Kesey | ||
| + | *Boy at school | ||
| + | *John and Yoko in bed | ||
| + | *Martin Luther King, Jr. | ||
| + | *Baseball players on field ("Miracle Mets") | ||
| + | *Olympic athletes on medal stand | ||
| + | *Home movies of kids | ||
| + | *Nixon and Agnew | ||
| + | *Kent State: man throws tear gas canister | ||
| + | *Military helicopter | ||
| + | *Hostage situation at Munich Olympics | ||
| + | *Robert Kennedy | ||
| + | *Stop the War signs -- anti-war rally | ||
| + | *Yearbook photo, zoom out from protagonist | ||
== Bibliography == | == Bibliography == | ||
Revision as of 19:53, 30 October 2008
Group 3
- Explain C. S. Pierce's "indexical sign" (aka, index) in terms of the relationship of "signifier" and "signified." What examples of it are provided in Television and Channels of Discourse? What would be two examples of it that are not mentioned in the textbooks?
Group 4
- Explain C. S. Pierce's "iconic sign" (aka, icon) in terms of the relationship of "signifier" and "signified." What examples of it are provided in Television and Channels of Discourse? What would be two examples of it that are not mentioned in the textbooks?
Group 1
- Explain C. S. Pierce's "symbolic sign" (aka, symbol) in terms of the relationship of "signifier" and "signified." What examples of it are provided in Television and Channels of Discourse? What would be two examples of it that are not mentioned in the textbooks?
Group 2
- Explain the semiotic principle of syntagmatic structure. What examples of it are provided in Television and Channels of Discourse? What would be one example of it that is not mentioned in the textbooks?
All groups
- Define "denotation" and "connotation." What are the denotations and connotations of the Wonder Years' opening montage? What does semiotician Roland Barthes mean by the term, "myth"? Is there a "binary opposition" to be found in this montage?
- Human on the moon
- Hippie bus -- Wavy Gravy, basis for the The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Ken Kesey
- Boy at school
- John and Yoko in bed
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Baseball players on field ("Miracle Mets")
- Olympic athletes on medal stand
- Home movies of kids
- Nixon and Agnew
- Kent State: man throws tear gas canister
- Military helicopter
- Hostage situation at Munich Olympics
- Robert Kennedy
- Stop the War signs -- anti-war rally
- Yearbook photo, zoom out from protagonist
Bibliography
- Butler, Jeremy G. Television: Critical Methods and Applications. Mahweh, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007.
- Robert C. Allen, Channels of Discourse, Reassembled, second edition (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992).
