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SUBJECT TO CHANGES ANNOUNCED IN CLASS
Date | Topic/Screening | Readings |
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8/23 | Introduction
to the Course The Andy Griffith Show (1966) click for illustrations : Make-a-Meme.org or create on your own |
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8/28 | TV Structure , Narrative Structure (Classicism) Friends (1999) click for illustrations Recommended: RBG (2018), Bama Art House, 7:30 |
Butler, chs. 1, 3 (pp. 24-34) click for illustrations click for illustrations |
8/30 | Narrative Structure (Series & Serial) The Big Bang Theory (2008) click for illustrations |
Butler, chs. 2, 3 (pp. 34-51) click for illustrations click for illustrations |
9/4 | Characters, Actors, Stars click for illustrations | Butler, ch. 4 click for illustrations |
9/6, 11 | Beyond
and Beside Narrative Cops (1989-) click for illustrations, CBS/NBC news click for illustrations, The Daily Show (1996-) click for illustrations Storage Wars (2010-) click for illustrations Who Wants to be a Millionaire (2005) click for illustrations College Football (2016) Rosh Hashanah |
Butler, ch. 5 click for illustrations recommended: Salon on Reality TV (local copy) Storage Wars, "Concerns About Authenticity" |
9/13 | The Commercial Old Spice Hawkridge, Chili's, AT&T, McDonald's, Best Buy, Subway, Little Ceasar's, Ford SYNC click for illustrations |
Butler, ch. 6 click for illustrations click for video |
9/18 | Exam
#1 -- exam preparation Gillette Fusion commercial |
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9/20 | Mise-en-Scene Stranger Things (2016) click for illustrations click for video |
Butler, chs. 7 and 8 click for illustrations click for illustrations |
9/25 | Cinematography/Videography click for illustrations click for illustrations New Girl (2011) click for video He Said, She Said (1991) CameraSim Exercise |
Butler, ch. 9 click for illustrations |
9/27 | Editing: Single Camera Mode click for illustrations Northern Exposure (1990-95) Northern Exposure clip The Sopranos click for illustrations Chevrolet ad click for illustrations click for illustrations |
Butler, ch. 10 (pp. 257-274) click for illustrations |
10/2 | Editing:
Multiple Camera Mode Seinfeld (1990-98) click for illustrations click for illustrations All My Children (1970-2011) All My Children As the World Turns (2008) click for illustrations Days of Our Lives (2017) click for illustrations click for illustrations The New Adventures of Old Christine (2006-10) click for illustrations |
Butler, ch. 10 (pp. 274-280) click for illustrations |
10/4 | Sound Exercise: Dodge commercial click for illustrations |
Butler, ch. 11 click for illustrations |
10/9 | Special Topics I: Music Television The Buggles, The Replacements, Alanis Morissette, Peter Gabriel, Guns N' Roses, Lauryn Hill, Lamp of Memoryclick for illustrations |
Allan click for illustrations |
10/11 | Special Topics II: Animation click for illustrations Steamboat Willie (1928) , Gerald McBoing-Boing (1951) , Crusader Rabbit (1949-51,'57-69) , The Flintstones (1960-66), The Simpsons (1989-) |
Butler/Goldmark, "Animated Television" click for illustrations |
10/16 | Television Studies: An Overview The Honeymooners (1955-56) click for illustrations Scrubs (2001-10) click for video illustrations |
Butler,
ch. 12;
Butler, Appendix II Television Style password: telestylistics |
10/18 | Exam #2 Review Select a question from a Screenpedia article. Recommended: Submit Exam #2 preparation |
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10/19 Friday |
Exam #2 preparation due 4:30 p.m., Dr. Butler's mailbox, JCM office (400 Phifer) |
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10/23 | Exam #2 (excludes "Television Studies") R.E.M. "Stand" (frame grabs) |
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10/25 | Mid-Semester Study Break | |
10/30 | Style and Stylistics The Mindy Project (2012-) click for illustrations |
Butler, ch. 13, pp. 319-323; Butler, "Televisuality and..." (PDF) |
10/31 | Last day to drop a course with a grade of "W". | |
11/1 | Genre Screening Martin Kane, Private Eye (1949-54) click for illustrations Dragnet (1951-59, 1967-70, 1989-91, 2003-04) click for illustrations Detour (1945) click for illustrations |
Butler, ch. 13, pp. 317-319 and 323-328 click for illustrations |
11/6 | Genre Study | Mittell, "Policing Genres" |
11/8 | Semiotics Screening Stranger Things (2016) [[WIKI]] Fangface (1980) click for illustrations The Wonder Years (1991) click for illustrations |
Butler, ch. 13, pp. 328-336 click for illustrations |
11/13 | Semiotics | Seiter, "Semiotics, Structuralism..." |
11/15 | Ideological Criticism, Cultural Studies & Production Studies Screening My So-Called Life (1994) click for illustrations |
Butler, ch. 14, pp. 339-352 |
11/20 | View on your own: Modern Family (2010) click for illustrations click for illustrations I Love Lucy (1952) click for illustrations click for illustrations The Wonder Years (1988) click for illustrations |
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11/22 | Thanksgiving Holiday | |
11/27 | Ideological Criticism, Cultural Studies & Production Studies | Thompson & Mittell, How to Read Television |
11/29 | Discourse & Identity Screening Designing Women (1991) click for illustrations The Real World (1992) click for illustrations Justify My Love (1990) click for illustrations |
Butler, ch. 14, pp. 352-361 click for illustrations |
12/4 | Discourse & Identity I & II: Gender and Queer Theory Girlfriends (2000) click for illustrations click for illustrations Fresh Off the Boat (2016) click for illustrations |
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12/6 | Discourse & Identity III: Race and Ethnicity black-ish (2015) click for illustrations |
Smith-Shomade, "Laughing Out Loud" |
Course Summary / Exam Review | ||
12/7 | Television Extra-Credit Due, 11:59 p.m. | |
12/13 | Final
Exam Period, 7:00 p.m., Thursday Exam #3 |
Jeremy G. Butler, Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture, 5th ed. (New York: Routledge, 2018). Online resources.
PDFs of the readings are posted on Blackboard Learn.