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==Bill Nichols' terms==
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#What does this term mean in the context of cartooning: naturalism?
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Explain film scholar Bill Nichols' sense of the following terms:<ref>Bill Nichols, ''Representing Reality''.</ref>
#Which filmmaker's cartoons were associated with naturalism? What technological and aesthetic techniques did he use to achieve this naturalism? What technological device did he use that is also used in A-Ha's music video ([http://tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/AHa-TakeOnMe.php view video])? (A digital version of the same device is used in ''Son of Zorn'' [2016].)
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*''historical world'' or ''historical reality''
#How has cartooning balanced naturalism with abstraction?
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**Why does he prefer this term to "reality"?
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*''social actor''
|File:Fig11-09 ah ha roto 01.jpg|alt1=Screen shot from A-Ha's ''Take on Me''.|Screen shot from Ah-Ha's ''Take on Me''.
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**Why does he prefer this term to "individuals" or, simply, "people" in non-narrative works?
|File:Son of Zorn.jpg|alt6=Screen shot from ''Son of Zorn''.|Screen shot from ''Son of Zorn''.
 
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== Bibliography ==
 
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#Butler, Jeremy G. ''Television: Critical Methods and Applications''. Mahweh, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007.
#What does this term mean in the context of cartooning: abstraction?
 
#What studio was associated with (somewhat) abstract cartooning? What aesthetic techniques did it use to achieve this abstraction?
 
#How has cartooning balanced abstraction with naturalism?
 
{{Gallery|title=|width=300|height=200|lines=2
 
|File:Fig11-11 Gerald copy.jpg|alt2=Screen shot from ''Gerald McBoing Boing''.|Screen shot from ''Gerald McBoing Boing''. [http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/GeraldMcBoing-Boing_480x360.php View video.]
 
|File:Bob's Burgers 20131110qq00 00 38qq.jpg|alt7=Screen shot from ''Bob's Burgers''.|Screen shot from ''Bob's Burgers''.
 
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#How do made-for-TV cartoons differ from made-for-movie-theater cartoons?
 
#*What was the first made-for-TV animated cartoon? When?
 
#*What aspects of made-for-TV cartoons does ''The Flintstones'' exemplify? ([http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/Flintstones.php View video.])
 
{{Gallery|title=|width=300|height=200|lines=2|File:Fig11-16 CrusaderRabbit06.jpg|alt3=Screen shot from ''Crusader Rabbit''.|Screen shot from ''Crusader Rabbit''. [http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/CrusaderRabbit.php View video.]}}
 
  
 
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==References==
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#How does digital (CGI) animation differ from conventional cell animation? In particular:
 
#*How is that difference part of the production process?
 
#*How is that difference evident in how the animation looks?
 
#*[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/SimpsonsHomer3.php View ''Simpsons'' 3D animation.]
 
{{Gallery|title=|width=300|height=200|lines=2
 
|File:Fig11-26 Simpsons 000013.jpg|alt4=Screen shot from ''The Simpsons''.|Screen shot from ''The Simpsons''.
 
|File:Fig11-27 Simpsons 000003.jpg|alt5=Screen shot from ''The Simpsons''.|Screen shot from ''The Simpsons''. Homer enters a new, strange dimension.
 
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#Describe the efficient mode of production that developed for cartoon production in the 1930s. What were its basic (1) technological and (2) economic characteristics?  That is, how was cartoon production organized so that it could be profitable?
 
 
 
== Bibliography ==
 
#Butler, Jeremy G. ''Television: Critical Methods and Applications''. '''Third edition'''. NY: Routledge, 2011.
 
  
 
==External links==
 
==External links==
*[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/Animation.php Animation illustrations]
 
*[http://tvcrit.com/files/DeletedChapters/11_images/index.html ''Television'', '''third edition''', Chapter 11 illustrations]
 
*[[wikipedia:Treehouse of Horror VI#Homer.C2.B3|Wikipedia article on "Homer<sup>3</sup>"]].
 
 
==External videos==
 
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpl0KRFdj1E ''Gerald McBoing Boing'']
 
*[https://tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/Bob's%20Burgers%2020131110.php ''Bob's Burgers'']
 
  
 
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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?

Bibliography

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

References

  1. Bill Nichols, Representing Reality.

External links