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== Bibliography == | == Bibliography == | ||
#Jeremy G. Butler, ''Television: Critical Methods and Applications'' (NY: Routledge, 2011). | #Jeremy G. Butler, ''Television: Critical Methods and Applications'' (NY: Routledge, 2011). |
Revision as of 18:18, 3 November 2016
Television on semiotics
- Groups 5 & 1: What would be two examples of C. S. Pierce's "indexical sign" (aka, index) that are not mentioned in the textbooks?
- Groups 6 & 2: What would be two examples of C. S. Pierce's "iconic sign" (aka, icon) that are not mentioned in the textbooks?
- Groups 7 & 3: What would be two examples of C. S. Pierce's "symbolic sign" that are not mentioned in the textbooks?
- Groups 4 & 8: What would be one example of syntagmatic structure that is not mentioned in the textbooks?
Ellen Seiter on semiotics
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- Define "denotation" and "connotation." What does semiotician Roland Barthes mean by the term, "myth"?
- What are the denotations and connotations of the Wonder Years' opening montage?
- Denotations: List/identify as many of the images as you can.
- What are the denotations and connotations of the Wonder Years' opening montage?
- Ellen Seiter, in Channels of Discourse, writes, "The picture [of Fangface] itself is a syntagm. ... In the paradigmatic dimension the options are a pair of categories nature/culture (or animal/human...), which is the source of the image's meaning." She continues, "...Hodge and Trip have introduced the binary opposition (nature/culture) and proceeded to organize the elements of the television image into paradigmatic sets."
- List three or four "paradigmatic sets" in the "Prophecy Girl" episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Refer to your list of the episode's scenes to provide specific examples.
- Are there any "paradigmatic sets" to be found in the Wonder Years montage?
- Both programs are about high-school students. How might paradigmatic sets be used to identify a similar thematic structure in the two programs?
- List two strength(s) of semiotic/structuralist analysis. List two weaknesses of this approach (no, a difficult vocabulary does not count).
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Bibliography
- Jeremy G. Butler, Television: Critical Methods and Applications (NY: Routledge, 2011).
- Ellen Seiter, "Semiotics, Structuralism and Television," in Robert C. Allen, Channels of Discourse, Reassembled, second edition (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992).