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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 ''The Mindy Project''? 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 ''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'' ([http://tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/MindyProject20131112Opening.php View clip]).
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*'''All Groups:''' List at least three aspects of the ''The Mindy Project'' scene that mark it as single-camera production.
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*'''All groups:''' Table 5.3 in "Televisuality and the Resurrection of the Sitcom in the 2000s" lists elements of the "single-camera televisual schema". Is ''The Mindy Project'' "televisual", in addition to being a single-camera production? Identify any elements from this table in the scene. ([http://tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/MindyProject20131112Opening.php View clip]).
  
 
== Bibliography ==
 
== Bibliography ==

Revision as of 19:55, 19 November 2013

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: List at least three aspects of the The Mindy Project scene that mark it as single-camera production.
  • All groups: Table 5.3 in "Televisuality and the Resurrection of the Sitcom in the 2000s" lists elements of the "single-camera televisual schema". Is The Mindy Project "televisual", in addition to being a single-camera production? Identify any elements from this table in the scene. (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.

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