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==''Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture''== | ==''Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture''== | ||
| − | '''Group | + | '''Group 1:''' 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. |
| − | ''' | + | '''Group 2:''' 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 | *symbolize | ||
*decorate | *decorate | ||
| − | '''Group | + | '''Group 3:''' 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 | *persuade | ||
*hail or interpellate | *hail or interpellate | ||
*differentiate | *differentiate | ||
| − | '''Groups | + | '''Groups 4:''' 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"== | =="Televisuality and the Resurrection of the Sitcom in the 2000s"== | ||
| + | View a scene from ''The Mindy Project'' (see Blackboard). | ||
*'''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 | + | *'''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. |
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*[https://tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/UnbreakableKimmieSchmidt_S3Ep_12_1280x720pxExcerpt.php ''Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt''] | *[https://tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/UnbreakableKimmieSchmidt_S3Ep_12_1280x720pxExcerpt.php ''Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt''] | ||
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| + | [[Category:BUI301 Discussion]] | ||
[[Category:JCM311]] | [[Category:JCM311]] | ||
[[Category:JCM311 Discussion]] | [[Category:JCM311 Discussion]] | ||
Revision as of 19:46, 14 October 2020
You may substitute Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt for The Mindy Project.
Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture
Group 1: 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.
Group 2: 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 3: 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 4: 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"
View a scene from The Mindy Project (see Blackboard).
- 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.
Morgan, Mindy, Cliff, and Yana (from left).
Bibliography
- Butler, Jeremy G. Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture. NY: Routledge, 2018.
- Butler, Jeremy G. "Televisuality and the Resurrection of the Sitcom in the 2000s," in Television Style (NY: Routledge, 2010), 173-222.
