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Date | Topic/Screening | Readings |
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8/22 | Introduction
to the Course The Andy Griffith Show (1966) ![]() ![]() |
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8/27 | TV
Structure ![]() ![]() Friends (1999) ![]() ![]() |
Butler,
chs. 1, 2 (pp. 21-33);![]() |
8/29 | Narrative Structure (Series & Serial) ![]() The Cosby Show (1984) ![]() ![]() |
Butler,
ch. 2 (pp. 34-51);![]() |
9/3 | Characters,
Actors, Stars![]() ![]() |
Butler,
ch. 3; ![]() |
9/5, 10 | Beyond
and Beside Narrative ![]() Cops (1989-) ![]() ![]() ![]() Deadliest Catch (2005-), Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (2012), College Football (2004) ![]() |
Butler,
ch. 4; ![]() recommended: Salon on Reality TV (local copy) |
9/12 | The Commercial ![]() Appleby's, Verizon, Tums, Aussie, Oreo, Botox, Tyson ![]() ![]() ![]() Extra Credit: Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie, Bama Theatre, 7:30pm, free |
Butler,
ch. 5 ![]() |
9/17 | Exam
#1 -- exam preparation Gillette Fusion commercial |
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9/19 | Television Studies: An Overview ![]() The Honeymooners (1955-56) ![]() The New Adventures of Old Christine (2006-10) ![]() |
Butler, ch. 11; Butler, Appendix II |
9/24 | Genre Screening Martin Kane, Private Eye (1949-54) ![]() Dragnet (1951-59, 1967-70, 1989-91, 2003-04) ![]() Detour (1945) ![]() |
Butler, Ch. 12, pp. 367-370 and 375-381 ![]() |
9/26 | Genre
Study ![]() |
Mittell, "Policing Genres" |
10/1 | Semiotics Screening Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) ![]() ![]() Fangface (1980) ![]() The Wonder Years (1991) ![]() ![]() |
Butler, Ch. 12, pp. 381-391 ![]() |
10/3 | Semiotics ![]() |
Seiter, "Semiotics, Structuralism..." |
10/8 | Ideological Criticism, Cultural Studies & Production Studies Screening Modern Family (2010) ![]() My So-Called Life (1994) ![]() |
Butler, Ch. 13, pp. 395-410 |
10/10 | Ideological Criticism, Cultural
Studies & Production Studies ![]() |
Thompson & Mittell, How to Read Television |
10/15 | Discourse & Identity Screening Designing Women (1991) ![]() The Real World (1992), Justify My Love (1990) ![]() |
Butler, Ch. 13, pp. 410-421 ![]() |
10/17 | Discourse & Identity I & II: Gender and Queer Theory ![]() Girlfriends (2000) ![]() ![]() |
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10/22 | Discourse & Identity III: Race and Ethnicity ![]() |
Smith-Shomade, "Laughing Out Loud" |
10/24 | Exam #2 ![]() |
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10/29 | Mise-en-Scene ![]() Northern Exposure (1990-95) ![]() ![]() |
Butler,
chs. 6 and 7 ![]() ![]() |
10/31 | Mid-Semester Break | |
11/5 | Cinematography/Videography ![]() ![]() ![]() New Girl (2011) ![]() He Said, She Said (1991) CameraSim Exercise |
Butler,
ch. 8 ![]() |
11/7 | Editing:
Single Camera Mode ![]() ![]() Northern Exposure (1990-95) ![]() ![]() The Sopranos ![]() ![]() Chevrolet ad ![]() ![]() |
Butler,
ch. 9 ![]() |
11/12 | Editing:
Multiple Camera Mode ![]() Seinfeld (1990-98) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As the World Turns (1956-2010) ![]() The New Adventures of Old Christine (2006-10) ![]() |
Butler,
ch. 9 ![]() |
11/14 | Sound ![]() Exercise: Dodge commercial ![]() |
Butler,
ch. 10![]() |
11/19 | Style and Stylistics ![]() Scrubs (2001-10) ![]() The Mindy Project (2012-) ![]() ![]() |
Butler, ch. 12, pp. 370-375; Butler, "Televisuality and..." (PDF) |
11/21 |
A History of TV Style ![]() Clorox commercial ![]() ![]() |
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11/26 | Special
Topics I: Music Television ![]() The Buggles, The Replacements, Alanis Morissette, Peter Gabriel, Guns N' Roses, Lauryn Hill, Lamp of Memory ![]() |
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11/28 | Thanksgiving Holiday | |
12/3 | Special Topics III: Animation ![]() ![]() Steamboat Willie (1928), Gerald McBoing-Boing (1951) , Crusader Rabbit (1949-51,'57-69) , The Flintstones (1960-66), The Simpsons (1989-) |
Butler/Goldmark, "Animated Television" (PDF)![]() |
12/5 | Course Summary / Exam Preparation (bring a laptop) ![]() |
Course Evaluation |
12/6 | Extra Credit due, TCF Office (484 Phifer), 4:30 pm Requirements |
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12/9 | Exam preparation due, 4:45 pm, TCF office (484 Phifer) | |
12/12 | Final
Exam Period, 8:00 a.m., Thursday Exam #3 R.E.M. "Stand" (frame grabs) |
Jeremy G. Butler, Television: Critical Methods and Applications (New York: Routledge, 2011). Online resources.
PDFs of the readings are posted on Blackboard Learn.
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