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==''Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture''==
 
==''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.
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#'''Group 1:''' Explain the work of "evaluative" and "descriptive" stylisticians. What might they find study in ''The Mindy Project''?
 
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#'''Group 2:''' Explain the work of "analytic" stylisticians.  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.
'''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.
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#*symbolize
*symbolize
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#*decorate
*decorate
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#'''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.
 
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#*persuade
'''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.
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#*hail or interpellate
*persuade
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#*differentiate
*hail or interpellate
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#'''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."
*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"==
 
=="Televisuality and the Resurrection of the Sitcom in the 2000s"==

Revision as of 18:12, 21 October 2020

Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture

  1. Group 1: Explain the work of "evaluative" and "descriptive" stylisticians. What might they find study in The Mindy Project?
  2. Group 2: Explain the work of "analytic" stylisticians. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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 and screenshots online).

  • 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.

Bibliography

  1. Butler, Jeremy G. Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture. NY: Routledge, 2018.
  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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