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| − | *Table 5.3 in "Televisuality and the Resurrection of the Sitcom in the 2000s" (see above) lists elements of the "single-camera televisual schema". How many of those single-camera elements do you see in ''The Mindy Project'' scene? Each group will account for one or two groups of elements: | + | *Table 5.3 in "Televisuality and the Resurrection of the Sitcom in the 2000s" (see above) lists elements of the "single-camera televisual schema". How many of those single-camera elements do you see in ''The Mindy Project'' scene? Each group will account for one or two groups of elements (click a thumbnail above to enlarge it): |
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Revision as of 20:09, 21 October 2020
Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture
- All groups: Explain how the textbook defines the term "style" in your own words.
- Group 1: Explain the work of "evaluative" and "descriptive" stylisticians. How might they approach The Mindy Project?
- Group 2: Explain the work of "analytic" stylisticians. How might they approach The Mindy Project? Be ready to define the following purposes or "functions" of style discussed in the textbook.
- symbolize
- decorate
- Group 3: Explain the work of "analytic" stylisticians. How might they approach The Mindy Project? Be ready to define the following purposes or "functions" of style discussed in the textbook.
- persuade
- hail or interpellate
- differentiate
- Group 4: Explain the work of "historical" stylisticians. How might they approach The Mindy Project? Be ready to define these terms: "craft practices" and "schemas."
"Televisuality and the Resurrection of the Sitcom in the 2000s"
Television Style, table 5.3 "Multiple-camera and Single-camera Schemas," full table.
Table 5.3: Cinematography.
Table 5.3: Mise-en-Scene and Editing.
Table 5.3: Sound and Miscellaneous.
View a scene from The Mindy Project (see Blackboard and screenshots online).
- Table 5.3 in "Televisuality and the Resurrection of the Sitcom in the 2000s" (see above) lists elements of the "single-camera televisual schema". How many of those single-camera elements do you see in The Mindy Project scene? Each group will account for one or two groups of elements (click a thumbnail above to enlarge it):
- Group 1: cinematography
- Group 2: mise-en-scene
- Group 3: editing
- Group 4: sound and "miscellaneous"
- All groups: Table 5.6 from the essay outlines a "televisual continuum." Where does The Mindy Project fit on the continuum? Table 5.6 puts Scrubs in the fifth category. Where would you place The Office?
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.
