Style and Stylistics (Discussion)
Group 4: Be prepared to define these basic terms: "style," "stylistics". Then, pretend you are an "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 a "analytic" stylistician. How would you study New Girl? 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 a "analytic" stylistician. How would you study New Girl? 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 New Girl? 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". Many of these will be discussed in the weeks to come, but try to identify at least three of them in the opening segment of New Girl.
Bibliography
- Butler, Jeremy G. Television: Critical Methods and Applications. NY: Routledge, 2011.
- Butler, Jeremy G. "Televisuality and the Resurrection of the Sitcom in the 2000s," in Television Style (NY: Routledge, 2010), 173-222.
