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Jeremy Butler: typo

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Jeremy Butler: time limits

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time limits

Jeremy Butler at 15:25, 11 October 2022

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Jeremy Butler: updated and enlarged

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Jeremy Butler at 18:35, 4 October 2022

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Jeremy Butler at 18:26, 4 October 2022

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Jeremy Butler: deadlines

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Jeremy Butler: details

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 ###How does your show relate to the zeitgeist of its time? Does it address social issues head-on (as with ''All in the Family'') or is it more a case of those issues informing the show (as in ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'')?
 ###Is your show "televisual"?
-##Discuss of ''specific'' examples of theories of humor: superiority, relief/release, and incongruity.
+##Discuss ''specific'' examples of theories of humor: superiority, relief/release, and incongruity.
 ##*Explain the theories of humor first and then provide at least two examples for each theory.
 ##*Use the analysis of ''Modern Family'' in ''The Sitcom'' as a model for analysis. (PDF on Blackboard under the title, "Butler, Jeremy. "Introduction: Comedy Genre, Humor Theory," ''The Sitcom''".)

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 ##*Explain the theories of humor first and then provide at least two examples for each theory.
 ##*Use the analysis of ''Modern Family'' in ''The Sitcom'' as a model for analysis. (PDF on Blackboard under the title, "Butler, Jeremy. "Introduction: Comedy Genre, Humor Theory," ''The Sitcom''".)
-#*'''Present your findings to the class during the week before Thanksgiving (11/15 and 11/17).'''
+#*'''Present your findings to the class during the week before Thanksgiving (11/15 and 11/17).''' Five minutes minimum; ten minutes maximum.
 #**'''Groups A & B on November 15th, Groups C & D on November 17th.'''
 #*'''Collect your findings into a 1,500-word essay and submit it via Blackboard/TurnItIn. Due Friday, 11/18, 11:59 p.m.'''
 #*Worth 45 points.

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 #**Here is [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2297452/ an example from IMDb], using the ''Bunheads'' episode we watched:
 #***"Michelle finds a "new" local coffee shop with an award winning barista. After frequenting the shop a few times, she manages to upset the barista & their personalities clash. Fanny is on the search for a dancer to portray Clara in the Nutcracker since Sasha is gone, but is finding it difficult to replace her. The girls are exhausted from the extra rehearsals & decide to go see a basketball game to watch Sasha cheer. Boo realizes she has a crush on Charlie & wants to tell him but, it might be too late. With the opening of a new grocery store canceled, Michelle decides it's time to protest.—Carrie DeCosta"
-#*Post to your Blackboard ''journal''. '''One recap is due each week at 11:59 p.m., starting October 11th.'''
+#*Post to your Blackboard ''journal''. '''One recap is due each Tuesday at 11:59 p.m., starting October 11th.'''
 #'''Oral presentation and written analysis of your sitcom.'''
 ##Using the chapter, "A Critical/Cultural History of the Sitcom," from ''The Sitcom'' (on Blackboard), respond to these questions:

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 #*Choose any half-hour comedy.
 #*Write short, one-paragraph summaries of episodes' plots.
-#**Here is [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2297452/ an example from IMDb], using the ''Bunheads'' episode we watched: "Michelle finds a "new" local coffee shop with an award winning barista. After frequenting the shop a few times, she manages to upset the barista & their personalities clash. Fanny is on the search for a dancer to portray Clara in the Nutcracker since Sasha is gone, but is finding it difficult to replace her. The girls are exhausted from the extra rehearsals & decide to go see a basketball game to watch Sasha cheer. Boo realizes she has a crush on Charlie & wants to tell him but, it might be too late. With the opening of a new grocery store canceled, Michelle decides it's time to protest.—Carrie DeCosta"
+#**Here is [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2297452/ an example from IMDb], using the ''Bunheads'' episode we watched:
-#*Post to your Blackboard ''journal''. '''One recap is due each week, starting October 11th.'''
+#***"Michelle finds a "new" local coffee shop with an award winning barista. After frequenting the shop a few times, she manages to upset the barista & their personalities clash. Fanny is on the search for a dancer to portray Clara in the Nutcracker since Sasha is gone, but is finding it difficult to replace her. The girls are exhausted from the extra rehearsals & decide to go see a basketball game to watch Sasha cheer. Boo realizes she has a crush on Charlie & wants to tell him but, it might be too late. With the opening of a new grocery store canceled, Michelle decides it's time to protest.—Carrie DeCosta"
 #'''Oral presentation and written analysis of your sitcom.'''
-##Identify the show's narrative problematic.
+##Using the chapter, "A Critical/Cultural History of the Sitcom," from ''The Sitcom'' (on Blackboard), respond to these questions:
-##*Discuss how it plays out in two specific episodes (using the recaps for reference).
+###What is the show's narrative problematic?
 ##Discuss of ''specific'' examples of theories of humor: superiority, relief/release, and incongruity.
 ##*Explain the theories of humor first and then provide at least two examples for each theory.

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 ##Discuss of ''specific'' examples of theories of humor: superiority, relief/release, and incongruity.
 ##*Explain the theories of humor first and then provide at least two examples for each theory.
-##*Use the analysis of ''Modern Family'' in ''The Sitcom'' as a model for analysis. (PDF on Blackboard.)
+##*Use the analysis of ''Modern Family'' in ''The Sitcom'' as a model for analysis. (PDF on Blackboard under the title, "Butler, Jeremy. "Introduction: Comedy Genre, Humor Theory," ''The Sitcom''".)
 #*'''Present your findings to the class during the week before Thanksgiving (11/15 and 11/17).'''
 #**'''Groups A & B on November 15th, Groups C & D on November 17th.'''
 #*'''Collect your findings into a 1,500-word essay and submit it via Blackboard/TurnItIn. Due Friday, 11/18, 11:59 p.m.'''
 #*Worth 45 points.

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 #*Use the analysis of ''Modern Family'' in ''The Sitcom'' as a model for analysis.
 #*Present your findings to the class during the week before Thanksgiving (11/15 and 11/17).
-#*Collect your findings into a 1,500-word essay and submit it via Blackboard/TurnItIn. Due Tuesday, 11/18, 11:59 p.m.
+#**Groups A & B on November 15th, Groups C & D on November 17th.
 #Worth 45 points.

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 Each student will select a half-hour TV comedy and analyze its use of humor. Elements of the analysis include:
-#Recaps (short summaries of the plots) of episodes (posted to Blackboard)
+#Recaps (short summaries of the plots) of five episodes.
 #Identification of the show's narrative problematic.
 #*Discuss how it plays out in two specific episodes (using the recaps for reference)