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Jump to navigationJump to search- 19:03, 18 December 2007 diff hist +2,100 N A History of TV Style (Discussion) New page: ==All groups== #Explain the concept that goes by the terms, "technological manifest destiny" and "technological determinism." Why is it a mistaken notion when applied to TV? #*What are som...
- 19:02, 18 December 2007 diff hist +2,050 N Sound (Discussion) New page: ==Purposes of sound on television== ''Television'' lists four "purposes of sound on television": #Capturing viewer attention. #Manipulating viewer understanding of the image. #Maintaining ...
- 19:02, 18 December 2007 diff hist +2,150 N Editing (Discussion) New page: ==Single camera vs. multiple camera== #What is the difference between the two modes of production? #*What is it about this scene from ''As The World Turns'' ([http://www.tcf.ua.edu/tvcritg...
- 19:02, 18 December 2007 diff hist +775 N Style and the Camera (Discussion) New page: == Group A: Alma Garrett == #Focal length #Depth of field #Shallow/deep focus ==Group B: Swearengen== #Definition or resolution #*Scan lines #*High definition versus standard definition ...
- 19:01, 18 December 2007 diff hist +1,234 N Mise-en-Scene (Discussion) New page: #What are icons? What is iconography? Discuss [http://www.tcf.ua.edu/tvcritgallery/main.php/v/tvprograms/TwoADays/ examples from ''Two-a-Days'']. #Lighting questions: ##What are the chara...
- 16:54, 18 December 2007 diff hist +26,807 N Fair use New page: ''' The '''fair use''' doctrine is an aspect of United States copyright law that provides for the licit, non-licensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another autho...
- 16:52, 18 December 2007 diff hist +2,201 N Melodrama Variations: TV Soap Opera (Discussion) New page: ==Readings== ==="Notes on the Soap Opera Apparatus"=== thumb|400px|left|Screen shot of Marisa Tomei and Breck Jamison in ''As the World Turns'' (1984). #What are ...
- 16:52, 18 December 2007 diff hist +2,469 N Domestic Melodrama Since World War II (Discussion) New page: ==Readings== ===Christine Gledhill=== #How did melodrama become "respectable" in academic circles? In particular, what does it mean to "read" a film "against the grain" (p. 6)? #What four ...
- 16:51, 18 December 2007 diff hist +890 N Domestic Melodrama as Genre (Discussion) New page: ==Readings== ===Molly Haskell=== #What three types of women does Haskell find in the woman's film? Who would be a recent example of each type? #What are the woman's film's four main theme...
- 16:50, 18 December 2007 diff hist +1,279 N Humphrey Bogart as Star (Discussion) New page: ==Readings== ===Robert Sklar=== #Skar comments, "Actors who create surprise, embody contradiction, impel the spectator to hold two conflicting ideas in the head at the same time, stand a b...
- 16:50, 18 December 2007 diff hist +1,915 N Concept of Star (Discussion) New page: ==Readings== ===Richard Dyer=== #Dyer argues, "The star image is used in the construction of a character in a film in three ways." What are those three ways? Pick one current movie or TV ...
- 16:50, 18 December 2007 diff hist +2,522 N Noir & Sexuality (Discussion) New page: ==Readings== === Janey Place === http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T440/DoubleIndemnity/thumbnails/Double10_jpg.jpg http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T440/DoubleIndemnity/thumbnail...
- 16:43, 18 December 2007 diff hist +2,307 N Howard Hawks as Auteur (Discussion) New page: ==Readings== === Andrew Sarris === #How does Sarris characterize Hawks' visual style? #What does Sarris mean by "professionalism" and how have we seen that in Hawks's films? ===Peter Woll...
- 16:42, 18 December 2007 diff hist +1,653 N Concept of Authorship (Discussion) New page: ==Readings== ===Introduction, by John Caughie=== #What are the basic assumptions of auteurist critics? #How did auteurism differ from previous film criticism? === Edward Buscombe === #Wha...
- 16:42, 18 December 2007 diff hist +3,195 N Film Noir as Genre (Discussion) New page: ==Readings== ===Raymond Borde and Étienne Chaumeton (Group A)=== In "Toward a Definition of Film Noir," Borde and Chaumeton look mostly at aspects of narrative an...
- 16:42, 18 December 2007 diff hist +1,980 N Concept of Genre (Discussion) New page: == Kitses == [[Image:Clementine08.jpg|thumb|A screen shot from ''My Darling Clementine'' reproduced in ''Horizons West'', p. 22. [http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T440/Clementine/inde...
- 16:27, 18 December 2007 diff hist +1,493 N BordwellThompson/Sound (Discussion) New page: == Diegetic and nondiegetic sound== #First, a review question, from the chapter on narrative form: what is a ''diegesis''? #*So, what is diegetic sound? #Bordwell/Thompson's Table 7.2 "Tem...
- 16:27, 18 December 2007 diff hist +1,555 N BordwellThompson/Editing (Discussion) New page: ==Continuity editing== #What is "continuity editing"? In what sense is it "continuous"? #Where does the 180-degree get its name? #*What is its purpose? More specifically, what does it "''...
- 16:27, 18 December 2007 diff hist +2,441 N BordwellThompson/Classical Style (Discussion) New page: ==Mise-en-scene== #How do you pronounce "mise-en-scene"? #What is its literal definition, from the French, and what is its general sense? That is, what elements of film make up mise-en-sc...
- 16:26, 18 December 2007 diff hist +2,301 N BordwellThompson/Narrative Form (Discussion) New page: == Form == #How do Bordwell and Thompson (B/T) define "form" in its general sense? And how is film a "system"? #Apply B/T's four principles of film form to ''Ordinary People'': ##Function:...