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>Also, Jeremy Butler has a new textbook out called "Television: Critical
>methods and Applications." It looks very useful.
<blush>
Thanks for the plug, Sarah. And, if I can do this without blushing too
brightly, let me amplify on it a bit.
TELEVISION: CRITICAL METHODS AND APPLICATIONS teaches students to approach
television critically. It is modeled on the many books in *film*
studies--especially Bordwell and Thompson's FILM ART--that teach critical
principles. It was published by Wadsworth in January 1994.
Included below is its Table of Contents. To assuage some of the
embarrassment I feel at posting such a self-serving note, I'd like to
invite other authors on SCREEN-L to do the same. I'll take these ToC's
(abstracts would also be welcome) and put them in SCREEN-L's archive for
future reference.
Television: Critical Methods and Application
Jeremy G. Butler
(Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1994)
Table of Contents
Preface
PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING TELEVISION'S STRUCTURES AND SYSTEMS
1) Television's Ebb and Flow
Polysemy, Heterogeneity, Contradiction
Interruption and Sequence
Segmentation
2) Narrative Structure: Television Stories
The Theatrical Film on Television
The Made-for-Television Film
The Television Series
The Television Serial
3) Building Narrative: Character, Performance, Star
Building Characters
Building Performances
The Star System?
4) Beyond and Beside Narrative Structure
Television's Reality
Reality Television: Forms, Modes and Genres
Newscasts, Sports, Game Shows, Nonnarrative Commercials
PART TWO: TELEVISION'S STYLE: IMAGE AND SOUND
5) Style and Setting: Mise-en-Scene
Set Design
Costume Design
Lighting Design
Actor Movement
6) Style and the Camera
Cinematographic and Videographic Principles
7) Style and Editing
Single-camera and Multiple-camera Modes of Production
8) Style and Sound
Types of Television Sound
Acoustic Properties and Sound Technology
9) A History of Television Style
By Gary Copeland
Visual Elements of Television Style
Aural Elements of Television Style
PART THREE: SPECIAL TOPICS IN TELEVISION FORM
10) Music Television
By Blaine Allan
Music Television and Music Video
Types of Music Video
11) Animated Television: The Narrative Cartoon
Theatrical Cartoons on TV
Made-for-Television Cartoons
PART FOUR: CRITICAL ANALYSIS: METHODOLOGY AND APPLICATION
12) Critical Methodology: Alternatives to Empirical Study
Empirical Research and Television
Alternatives to Empirical Study
Auteur theory
Genre Study
Semiotics
Ideological criticism
Feminism
13) Sample Analysis: Designing Women
Narrative and Overall Program Structure
Image and Sound
Feminist Discourse and Designing Women
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Jeremy Butler [log in to unmask]
SCREEN-L Coordinator [log in to unmask]
Telecommunication & Film Dept. * University of Alabama * Tuscaloosa
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