Critical Analysis #1
Choose a narrative television program--a drama--and apply the analytical concepts presented in the textbook to it. Use the analysis of Designing Women (chapter 13) as your guide.
Due in class, Thursday, February 17th. This exercise must be word-processed, 5-10 pages. Any use of outside sources--including Television: Critical Methods and Applications and Web resources-- must be properly cited (see below). A bibliography and the credits for the program analyzed must be provided. This analysis is worth 25% of your semester grade.
You must bring to class a videocassette of a scene from the program you have selected. We will discuss these scenes in class.
Your credits must include: producer, production company, director, writer, principal cast (actors' and characters' names).
Your paper should address the following issues.
Sample citation style (endnotes):
For a book:
Jeremy G. Butler, Television: It's My Life (Slap Out, AL: Full Press, 1954), 173.
For an article in a journal:
Jeremy G. Butler, "Discursive Strategies in The Jetsons: 'Jane, Stop This Crazy Thing,'" Journal of Trendy Intellectualism, 17, no. 4 (Spring 1865): 47.