Style and Stylistics (Discussion)

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 The Mindy Project? 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 The Mindy Project? 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 The Mindy Project? 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 The Mindy Project (View clip).

Bibliography

1. Butler, Jeremy G. Television: Critical Methods and Applications. NY: Routledge, 2012.
2. Butler, Jeremy G. "Televisuality and the Resurrection of the Sitcom in the 2000s," in Television Style (NY: Routledge, 2010), 173-222.

External links

• Television Style illustrations
• Television Style official homepage
• The Mindy Project clip
• New Girl clip
• Hybrid mode of production in How I Met Your Mother