Style and Stylistics (Discussion)
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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"
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?
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.