Difference between revisions of "Semiotics II (Discussion)"
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#**'''Group 1 Gia or Bryan:''' | #**'''Group 1 Gia or Bryan:''' | ||
#**'''Group 2 Abigail or Alex:''' | #**'''Group 2 Abigail or Alex:''' | ||
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#**# Living/Dead | #**# Living/Dead | ||
#**# Toughness/beauty | #**# Toughness/beauty | ||
#**# Reality/abnormality | #**# Reality/abnormality | ||
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+ | #**#Making women predators instead of prey | ||
+ | #**#Triumph of good over evil | ||
+ | #**#Vampire named Angel / A form of evil holds a name of purity and good | ||
+ | #**#Zander is needy/emotional vs. Buffy who is unemotional and detached | ||
#List two strength(s) of semiotic/structuralist analysis. List two weaknesses of this approach (no, a difficult vocabulary does not count). | #List two strength(s) of semiotic/structuralist analysis. List two weaknesses of this approach (no, a difficult vocabulary does not count). | ||
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#***#Not structured well, can be very broad | #***#Not structured well, can be very broad | ||
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+ | #***#Strength: Raise new theoretical issues | ||
+ | #***#Strength: Make us aware of what we take for granted that is represented in the world | ||
+ | #***#Weakness: Not everyone will have the same interpretation of signs | ||
+ | #***#Weakness: Too Broad in analysis; not concise or structured | ||
== Bibliography == | == Bibliography == |
Revision as of 15:52, 12 November 2009
- Ellen Seiter, in Channels of Discourse, writes, "The picture [of Fangface] itself is a syntagm. ... In the paradigmatic dimension the options are a pair of categories nature/culture (or animal/human...), which is the source of the image's meaning." She continues, "...Hodge and Trip have introduced the binary opposition (nature/culture) and proceeded to organize the elements of the television image into paradigmatic sets."
- List three or four "paradigmatic sets" in the "Prophecy Girl" episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- Group 1 Gia or Bryan:
- Group 2 Abigail or Alex:
- Group 3 Carvel:
- Living/Dead
- Toughness/beauty
- Reality/abnormality
- Group 4 Hannah:
- Making women predators instead of prey
- Triumph of good over evil
- Vampire named Angel / A form of evil holds a name of purity and good
- Zander is needy/emotional vs. Buffy who is unemotional and detached
- List three or four "paradigmatic sets" in the "Prophecy Girl" episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- List two strength(s) of semiotic/structuralist analysis. List two weaknesses of this approach (no, a difficult vocabulary does not count).
- Group 1:
- Group 2:
- Group 3:
- Strengths-
- How the meaning is created rather then what the meaning is
- Helps understand relationships
- Weaknesses –
- There is no gray area
- Not structured well, can be very broad
- Strengths-
- Group 4:
- Strength: Raise new theoretical issues
- Strength: Make us aware of what we take for granted that is represented in the world
- Weakness: Not everyone will have the same interpretation of signs
- Weakness: Too Broad in analysis; not concise or structured
Bibliography
- Butler, Jeremy G. Television: Critical Methods and Applications. Mahweh, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007.
- Robert C. Allen, Channels of Discourse, Reassembled, second edition (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992).