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==''Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture''== | ==''Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture''== | ||
| − | #'''Group 1:''' Explain the work of "evaluative" and "descriptive" stylisticians. | + | #'''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. | + | #'''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 | #*symbolize | ||
#*decorate | #*decorate | ||
| − | #'''Group 3:''' | + | #'''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 | #*persuade | ||
#*hail or interpellate | #*hail or interpellate | ||
#*differentiate | #*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"== | =="Televisuality and the Resurrection of the Sitcom in the 2000s"== | ||
Revision as of 19:55, 21 October 2020
Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture
- 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).
- 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.
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.
