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Jump to navigationJump to search- 19:07, 18 December 2007 diff hist +3,492 N Feminist Criticism II (Discussion) New page: Image:BritneySpearsHitMeBaby.jpg ==All groups== #According to Kaplan, feminists have taken two approaches in their analyses of the "Madonna phenomenon": ##"A feminist identity politics...
- 19:06, 18 December 2007 diff hist +2,229 N Feminist Criticism (Discussion) New page: Ann Kaplan discusses four particular, political approaches feminists have taken to television: #liberal/bourgeois #Marxist #radical #post-structural ==Main cast== *Julie *Heather *Becky ...
- 19:06, 18 December 2007 diff hist +1,888 N Ideological Criticism (Discussion) New page: ==Key terms in ideological criticism== ''Television'' and Mimi White's chapter in ''Channels of Discourse'' both present key terms and concepts involved in the study of ideology--including...
- 19:05, 18 December 2007 diff hist +2,391 N Genre Study (Discussion) New page: Jeremy Butler groups genre definitions into three categories: by audience response, by style, and by subject matter. And Jane Feuer, in the ''Channels'' chapter on genre, specifies three a...
- 19:05, 18 December 2007 diff hist +1,451 N Semiotics II (Discussion) New page: #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 (...
- 19:05, 18 December 2007 diff hist +2,106 N Semiotics (Discussion) New page: ==Group 3 == #Explain C. S. Pierce's "indexical sign" (aka, index) in terms of the relationship of "signifier" and "signified." What examples of it are provided in ''Television'' and ''Cha...
- 19:05, 18 December 2007 diff hist +1,713 N Television Studies: An Overview (Discussion) New page: ==Empirical methods vs. critical methods== To understand the difference between empirical and critical methods, we need to look at their basic principles and presumptions. The class will b...
- 19:04, 18 December 2007 diff hist +2,100 N Animation (Discussion) New page: #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 car...
- 19:03, 18 December 2007 diff hist +2,865 N The Commercial (Discussion) New page: ==The Polysemy of Commodities== What does the phrase "the polysemy of commodities" mean? ===Group 1=== #Luxury, leisure and conspicuous consumption #Individualism ===Group 2=== #The natur...
- 19:03, 18 December 2007 diff hist +2,125 N Music Television (Discussion) New page: ==Types of expression== Allan contends that one can group music videos according to ''types of expression'' -- separate from genres based on content. That is, genres such a rock, pop, rap,...
- 19:03, 18 December 2007 diff hist +2,100 N A History of TV Style (Discussion) New page: ==All groups== #Explain the concept that goes by the terms, "technological manifest destiny" and "technological determinism." Why is it a mistaken notion when applied to TV? #*What are som...
- 19:02, 18 December 2007 diff hist +2,050 N Sound (Discussion) New page: ==Purposes of sound on television== ''Television'' lists four "purposes of sound on television": #Capturing viewer attention. #Manipulating viewer understanding of the image. #Maintaining ...
- 19:02, 18 December 2007 diff hist +2,150 N Editing (Discussion) New page: ==Single camera vs. multiple camera== #What is the difference between the two modes of production? #*What is it about this scene from ''As The World Turns'' ([http://www.tcf.ua.edu/tvcritg...
- 19:02, 18 December 2007 diff hist +775 N Style and the Camera (Discussion) New page: == Group A: Alma Garrett == #Focal length #Depth of field #Shallow/deep focus ==Group B: Swearengen== #Definition or resolution #*Scan lines #*High definition versus standard definition ...
- 19:01, 18 December 2007 diff hist +1,234 N Mise-en-Scene (Discussion) New page: #What are icons? What is iconography? Discuss [http://www.tcf.ua.edu/tvcritgallery/main.php/v/tvprograms/TwoADays/ examples from ''Two-a-Days'']. #Lighting questions: ##What are the chara...
- 16:54, 18 December 2007 diff hist +26,807 N Fair use New page: ''' The '''fair use''' doctrine is an aspect of United States copyright law that provides for the licit, non-licensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another autho...
- 16:52, 18 December 2007 diff hist +2,201 N Melodrama Variations: TV Soap Opera (Discussion) New page: ==Readings== ==="Notes on the Soap Opera Apparatus"=== thumb|400px|left|Screen shot of Marisa Tomei and Breck Jamison in ''As the World Turns'' (1984). #What are ...
- 16:52, 18 December 2007 diff hist +2,469 N Domestic Melodrama Since World War II (Discussion) New page: ==Readings== ===Christine Gledhill=== #How did melodrama become "respectable" in academic circles? In particular, what does it mean to "read" a film "against the grain" (p. 6)? #What four ...
- 16:51, 18 December 2007 diff hist +890 N Domestic Melodrama as Genre (Discussion) New page: ==Readings== ===Molly Haskell=== #What three types of women does Haskell find in the woman's film? Who would be a recent example of each type? #What are the woman's film's four main theme...
- 16:50, 18 December 2007 diff hist +1,279 N Humphrey Bogart as Star (Discussion) New page: ==Readings== ===Robert Sklar=== #Skar comments, "Actors who create surprise, embody contradiction, impel the spectator to hold two conflicting ideas in the head at the same time, stand a b...