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#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."
 
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#*List three or four "paradigmatic sets" in the "Prophecy Girl" episode of ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''.
 
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#**'''Group 1 Bryan:'''
 
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#**#All shots of the master with a high vantage point (above the eyeline)
 
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#**#All shots of Buffy during the scene where the guy tries to ask her to the dance from Camera position A
 
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#**#All shots below the eyeline of Buffy
 
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#**'''Group 2 Abigail or Alex:'''
 
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#**'''Group 3 Carvel:'''
 
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#**# Living/Dead
 
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#**# Toughness/beauty
 
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#**# Reality/abnormality
 
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#**'''Group 4 Hannah:'''
 
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#**#Making women predators instead of prey
 
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#**#Triumph of good over evil
 
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#**#Vampire named Angel / A form of evil holds a name of purity and good
 
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#**#Zander is needy/emotional vs. Buffy who is unemotional and detached
 
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#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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#***#Strengths: The semiotic approach focuses heavily on studying language.  Structuralists give an accurate account of a culture because of their heavy studying of the rules and taboos.
 
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#***#Weaknesses: Semiotics often categorize causing them to generalize something which can downplay importance or some other aspect.  Structuralists "often leads to to a description of the worldview of a culture" which can have negative effects.
 
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#**'''Group 2:'''
 
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#**'''Group 3:'''
 
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#*** Strengths-
 
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#***#How the meaning is created rather then what the meaning is
 
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#***#Helps understand relationships
 
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#***Weaknesses –
 
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#***#There is no gray area
 
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#***#Not structured well, can be very broad
 
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#**'''Group 4:'''
 
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#***#Strength: Raise new theoretical issues
 
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#***#Strength: Make us aware of what we take for granted that is represented in the world
 
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#***#Weakness: Not everyone will have the same interpretation of signs
 
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#***#Weakness: Too Broad in analysis; not concise or structured
 
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== Bibliography ==
 
== Bibliography ==
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#Butler, Jeremy G. ''Television: Critical Methods and Applications''. Mahweh, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007.
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#Butler, Jeremy G. ''Television: Critical Methods and Applications'' (NY: Routledge, 2011).
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# Robert C. Allen, ''Channels of Discourse, Reassembled'', second edition (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992).
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#Ellen Seiter, "Semiotics, Stucturalism and TV," in Robert C. Allen, ed., ''Channels of Discourse, Reassembled'', second edition (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992).
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==
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==External links==
 
==External links==
 
*[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/WonderYears.htm ''The Wonder Years'' (1991) illustrations]
 
*[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/WonderYears.htm ''The Wonder Years'' (1991) illustrations]
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*[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T311/SemioticsBuffy.htm ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' (1997) illustrations]
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*[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T311/SemioticsBuffy.htm ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' (1991) illustrations]
 
*[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T311/Fangface/index.htm ''Fangface'' (1980) illustrations]
 
*[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T311/Fangface/index.htm ''Fangface'' (1980) illustrations]
 
*[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/tvcritgallery/main.php/v/chapter13/ Chapter 13 illustrations]
 
*[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/tvcritgallery/main.php/v/chapter13/ Chapter 13 illustrations]
  
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Latest revision as of 21:55, 23 August 2019

Bibliography

  1. Butler, Jeremy G. Television: Critical Methods and Applications (NY: Routledge, 2011).
  2. Ellen Seiter, "Semiotics, Stucturalism and TV," in Robert C. Allen, ed., Channels of Discourse, Reassembled, second edition (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992).

See also

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