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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 , Narrative Structure (Classicism) 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-), CBS/NBC news , The Daily Show (1996-) 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 | |
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) , All My Children (1970-2011) 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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