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*'''All Groups:''' List at least three aspects of the ''The Mindy Project'' scene that mark it as single-camera production. | *'''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. ([http://tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/MindyProject20131112Opening.php View clip]). | *'''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]). | ||
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Revision as of 20:51, 6 December 2016
Television: Critical Methods and Applications
Groups 7 & 3: Be prepared to define these basic terms: "style," "stylistics". Then, pretend you are "evaluative" and "descriptive" stylisticians. How would you study The Mindy Project? Devise a research project that you might attempt with this TV text.
Groups 4 & 8: 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
Groups 5 & 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.
- persuade
- hail or interpellate
- differentiate
Groups 6 & 2: 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."
"Televisuality and the Resurrection of the Sitcom in the 2000s"
- 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
- 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.
