>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 ===================================================================== Jeremy Butler [log in to unmask] SCREEN-L Coordinator [log in to unmask] Telecommunication & Film Dept. * University of Alabama * Tuscaloosa =====================================================================