Difference between revisions of "Style and Stylistics (Discussion)"
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'''Group 3:''' Be prepared to define these basic terms: "style," "stylistics". Then, pretend you are a "historical" stylistician. How would you study ''New Girl''? Devise a research project that you might attempt with this TV text. Be sure to account for "craft practices" and "schemas." | '''Group 3:''' Be prepared to define these basic terms: "style," "stylistics". Then, pretend you are a "historical" stylistician. How would you study ''New Girl''? Devise a research project that you might attempt with this TV text. Be sure to account for "craft practices" and "schemas." | ||
| − | '''All groups:''' Table 5.3 in "Televisuality and the Resurrection of the Sitcom in the 2000s" lists elements of the "single-camera televisual schema". Try to identify at least three of them in the opening segment of ''New Girl''. | + | '''All groups:''' Table 5.3 in "Televisuality and the Resurrection of the Sitcom in the 2000s" lists elements of the "single-camera televisual schema". Try to identify at least three of them in the opening segment of ''New Girl'' ([http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/NewGirl.php view clip]). |
== Bibliography == | == Bibliography == | ||
Revision as of 19:43, 20 November 2012
Group 4: Be prepared to define these basic terms: "style," "stylistics". Then, pretend you are "evaluative" and "descriptive" stylisticians. How would you study New Girl? Devise a research project that you might attempt with this TV text.
Group 1: Be prepared to define these basic terms: "style," "stylistics". Then, pretend you are an "analytic" stylistician. How would you study New Girl? Devise a research project that you might attempt with this TV text. Be sure to account for the following "functions" of style discussed in the textbook.
- symbolize
- decorate
Group 2: Be prepared to define these basic terms: "style," "stylistics". Then, pretend you are an "analytic" stylistician. How would you study New Girl? Devise a research project that you might attempt with this TV text. Be sure to account for the following "functions" of style discussed in the textbook.
- persuade
- hail or interpellate
- differentiate
Group 3: Be prepared to define these basic terms: "style," "stylistics". Then, pretend you are a "historical" stylistician. How would you study New Girl? Devise a research project that you might attempt with this TV text. Be sure to account for "craft practices" and "schemas."
All groups: Table 5.3 in "Televisuality and the Resurrection of the Sitcom in the 2000s" lists elements of the "single-camera televisual schema". Try to identify at least three of them in the opening segment of New Girl (view clip).
Bibliography
- Butler, Jeremy G. Television: Critical Methods and Applications. NY: Routledge, 2012.
- Butler, Jeremy G. "Televisuality and the Resurrection of the Sitcom in the 2000s," in Television Style (NY: Routledge, 2010), 173-222.
