>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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