Difference between pages "JCM312/French Cinema Between the Wars I: Popular Front (Discussion)" and "Style and Stylistics (Discussion)"

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==''Le Million''==
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=="Televisuality and the Resurrection of the Sitcom in the 2000s"==
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*In the following four instances, sound and image are ''not'' in sync. How does sound comment on or shape the image in these scenes? (Online at http://tvcrit.org/EO/DV/Million.php )
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*#'''Groups 2 & 5:''' :00:04:16 Interrupted embrace.
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File:Table 5.3-resized.jpg|alt=Television Style, table 5.3|''Television Style'', table 5.3 "Multiple-camera and Single-camera Schemas," full table.
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*#'''Group 3:''' :00:37:55 Michel in a taxi.
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File:Table 5.3 part 1 Cinematography.jpg|alt=Television Style, table 5.3|Table 5.3: Cinematography.
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*#'''Group 4:''' :00:56:09 Michel and Béatrice, trapped on stage.
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File:Table 5.3 part 2 MeS and Editing resized.jpg|alt=Television Style, table 5.3.|Table 5.3: Mise-en-Scene and Editing.
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*#'''Group 6 & 1:''' :01:12:00 The backstage struggle for the jacket.
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File:Table 5.3 part 3 Sound and Misc resized.jpg|alt=Television Style, table 5.3.|Table 5.3: Sound and Miscellaneous.
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==''The Crime of M. Lange''==
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View a scene from ''The Mindy Project'' (see Blackboard and [http://tvcrit.org/Classes/Jbutler/BUI301/MindyProject_20131112/index.html screenshots online]).
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#'''Group 4:''' In 1936, right after the Popular Front scored a victory in the election, there were nationwide strikes. What impact did these strikes have on the film industry? Specifically, what was the "''Contrat Collectif''"?
 
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#'''Group 1:''' Among the significant events of 1936 was the founding of Ciné-Liberté. What were the objectives of this association and what was Renoir's relationship to it?
 
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#*Describe the film, ''La vie est à nous'', and its relationship to the Popular Front
 
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#'''Group 2:''' Strebel writes that the working man (often played by Jean Gabin), aka the "proletarian hero," was often a part of films of this era. How does she characterize him (e.g., in ''The Crime of M. Lange'')?
 
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#'''Group 3:''' According to Strebel, "The parallels between the growth of the cinematographic movement [that is, 1930s French "social cinema"] and its corresponding socio-political movement, the Popular Front, are extremely close." How so?
 
  
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== ''The Crime of M. Lange'' cast==
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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".
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**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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**#'''Group 1:''' cinematography
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**#'''Group 2:''' mise-en-scene
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**#'''Group 3:''' editing
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**#'''Group 4:''' sound ''and'' "miscellaneous"
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*'''All groups:''' '''Table 5.6''' from the essay outlines a "televisual continuum"--ranging from ''very'' televisual (''The Simpsons'') to not televisual at all (school-play recordings).
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*#What does the term "televisual" mean--as conceived by John Caldwell (see p. 175)?
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*#Where does ''The Mindy Project'' fit on the continuum? Table 5.6 puts ''The Honeymooners'' in the second category, ''The New Adventures of Old Christine'' ([[Editing: Multiple Camera Mode (Discussion)|which we discussed three weeks ago]]) in the third category, and ''Scrubs'' in the fifth category.  
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*#Where would you place ''The Office'' (see Ethan Thompson's and Brett Mills's discussion of comedy ''vérité ''; p. 214?
  
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File:Mindyproject 20131112qq00 00 55qq00040.jpg|alt=The Mindy Project screenshot.|Morgan, Mindy, Cliff, and Yana (from left).
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*René Lefèvre ... Amédée Lange
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==''Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture''==
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*Florelle ... Valentine
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#'''All groups''': Explain how the textbook defines the term "style" in your own words.
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*Jules Berry ... Batala
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#'''Group 1:''' Explain the work of "evaluative" and "descriptive" stylisticians. How might they approach ''The Mindy Project''?
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*Marcel Lévesque ... The Concierge
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#'''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.
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*Odette Talazac ... The Concierge
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#*symbolize
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*Henri Guisol ... Meunier (the son)
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#*decorate
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*Maurice Baquet ... Charles, The Concierges' Son
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#'''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.
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*Jacques B. Brunius ... Mr. Baigneur
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#*persuade
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*Sylvain Itkine ... Batala's cousin
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#*hail or interpellate
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#*differentiate
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#'''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."
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== Bibliography ==
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#Butler, Jeremy G. ''Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture''. NY: Routledge, 2018.
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#Butler, Jeremy G. "Televisuality and the Resurrection of the Sitcom in the 2000s," in ''Television Style'' (NY: Routledge, 2010), 173-222.
  
 
==External links==
 
==External links==
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*[https://tvcrit.org/EO/DV/Million.php Sound Experiments in ''Le Million'']
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*[https://www.tvstylebook.com/ ''Television Style'' official homepage]
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*[https://tvcrit.org/Classes/Jbutler/BUI301/MindyProject_20131112/index.html ''The Mindy Project'' screenshots]
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==Bibliography==
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*[https://criticalcommons.org/Members/jbutler/clips/blending-multiple-camera-and-single-camera/ Hybrid mode of production] in ''How I Met Your Mother''
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*Strebel, Elizabeth Grottle. "French Social Cinema and the Popular Front." ''Journal of Contemporary History'' 12, no. 3 (July 1977), 499-519.
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*[https://tvcrit.org/Classes/Jbutler/BUI301/NewAdventuresofOldChristine/ ''The New Adventures of Old Christine'': screenshots]
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*[https://tvcrit.org/Classes/Jbutler/BUI301/NewAdventuresofOldChristine/Table%20502_OldChristine.pdf ''The New Adventures of Old Christine'': découpage]
  
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Revision as of 18:24, 22 October 2020

"Televisuality and the Resurrection of the Sitcom in the 2000s"

  • Television Style, table 5.3

    Television Style, table 5.3 "Multiple-camera and Single-camera Schemas," full table.

  • Television Style, table 5.3

    Table 5.3: Cinematography.

  • Television Style, table 5.3.

    Table 5.3: Mise-en-Scene and Editing.

  • Television Style, table 5.3.

    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):
      1. Group 1: cinematography
      2. Group 2: mise-en-scene
      3. Group 3: editing
      4. Group 4: sound and "miscellaneous"
  • All groups: Table 5.6 from the essay outlines a "televisual continuum"--ranging from very televisual (The Simpsons) to not televisual at all (school-play recordings).
    1. What does the term "televisual" mean--as conceived by John Caldwell (see p. 175)?
    2. Where does The Mindy Project fit on the continuum? Table 5.6 puts The Honeymooners in the second category, The New Adventures of Old Christine (which we discussed three weeks ago) in the third category, and Scrubs in the fifth category.
    3. Where would you place The Office (see Ethan Thompson's and Brett Mills's discussion of comedy vérité ; p. 214?
  • The Mindy Project screenshot.

    Morgan, Mindy, Cliff, and Yana (from left).

Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture

  1. All groups: Explain how the textbook defines the term "style" in your own words.
  2. Group 1: Explain the work of "evaluative" and "descriptive" stylisticians. How might they approach The Mindy Project?
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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."

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.

External links

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