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==Bill Nichols' terms==
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#Explain the concept that goes by the terms, "technological manifest destiny" and "technological determinism." Why is it a ''mistaken'' notion when applied to TV?
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'''All groups:''' Explain film scholar Bill Nichols' sense of the following terms:<ref>Bill Nichols, ''Representing Reality''.</ref>
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#*What are some examples that you've seen that prove this concept is wrong? (Don't rely on the examples in the book and you can refer to technology other than that involving video or TV.)
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*''historical world'' or ''historical reality''
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#What is a kinescope? How were kinescopes created and what characterized how they looked? (See figures in ''Television''.)
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**Why does he prefer this term to "reality"?
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*''social actor''
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**Why does he prefer this term to "individuals" or, simply, "people" in non-narrative works?
  
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==Modes of representation==
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#Outline the [[history of video editing]]--listing the major technological changes. How did these changes have an impact on TV style?
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Television depicts historical reality and addresses itself to the viewer about that reality through four principal "modes". Individual genres and programs are not limited to one single mode, but instead draw upon each as needed.
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#Why type of editing equipment do you suppose was used to cut the following programs:
 
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Drawing upon the examples of non-narrative television viewed in class (''Lobster Wars'', ''The Daily Show'', ''Two-A-Days'', ''Cops'', news coverage of an incident in Goražde) explain each mode:
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#List the elements of the production of ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' that make it significant to the history of TV style. Explain ''why'' each element is important.
 
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#What are examples of recent (within the past five years) programs that are shot the same way that ''Lucy'' was shot?
 
  
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#'''Group 4:''' Expository (or rhetorical)
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#The history of color TV is very complicated. Create a [[history of color TV|timeline]] that lists the significant events leading up to color TV's widespread implementation.
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#What is the NTSC and why was it created?
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== Bibliography ==
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#When did [[history of the remote control|the remote control]] first appear and what were the names of the early devices?
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#Butler, Jeremy G. ''Television: Critical Methods and Applications''. Mahweh, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007.
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File:1956 Zenith Remote Ad.JPG|Zenith remote-control ad (1956).
 
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|File:1956 Zenith Remote Ad.JPG|alt1=Back of statue facing a city building whose facade is Greek columns covered by a huge U.S. flag|The statue of Washington outside [[Federal Hall]] in [[New York City]], looking on [[Wall Street]].
 
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|File:Zenith Space Command.jpg|alt2=Profile of stone face jutting out from a mountainside. Three workers clamber over it, each about the height of the face's upper lip.|Construction on the George Washington portrait at [[Mount Rushmore]], c. 1932.
 
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==References==
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== Bibliography ==
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#Butler, Jeremy G. ''Television: Critical Methods and Applications''.
 
  
 
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*[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/Clorox.htm Clorox commercials] (password protected).
 
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*[http://youtu.be/gV0Ralac0w4 ''The Magic of Television''] (1941)
 
  
 
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Bill Nichols' terms

All groups: Explain film scholar Bill Nichols' sense of the following terms:[1]

  • historical world or historical reality
    • Why does he prefer this term to "reality"?
  • social actor
    • Why does he prefer this term to "individuals" or, simply, "people" in non-narrative works?

Modes of representation

Television depicts historical reality and addresses itself to the viewer about that reality through four principal "modes". Individual genres and programs are not limited to one single mode, but instead draw upon each as needed.

Drawing upon the examples of non-narrative television viewed in class (Lobster Wars, The Daily Show, Two-A-Days, Cops, news coverage of an incident in Goražde) explain each mode:

  1. Group 4: Expository (or rhetorical)
  2. Group 1: Interactive
  3. Group 2: Observational
  4. Group 2: Reflexive

Bibliography

  1. Butler, Jeremy G. Television: Critical Methods and Applications. Mahweh, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007.

References

  1. ↑ Bill Nichols, Representing Reality.

External links

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