These two clips were made available through http://criticalcommons.org/ which amounts to a YouTube for scholars. Very useful, if only for these two great clips from the latest (and best) season of Mad Men.
Feminism vs. Civil Rights
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Women Who Stare Back
Monday, November 01, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
TV Criticism Syllabus Fall 2010
Week 1, 8/26: Why TV?: An Introduction to the Course
Week 2, 8/31 & 9/2: TV History, Style, and Industry Structure
Readings: Mittell, Chapters 1 & 2; Watts, “Melancholy, Merit, and Merchandise”
Screenings: Texaco Star Theater, Tales from Tomorrow, Ernie Kovacs
Week 3, 9/7 & 9/9: New TV Structures
Readings: Caldwell, “Convergence Television”; Brooker, “Living on Dawson’s Creek”
Screening: Tosh.0, Justified
Week 4, 9/14 & 9/16: Public Interest and Television Citizenship
Readings: Mittell, Chapters 3 & 4
Screening: Good Night and Good Luck
Week 5, 9/21 & 9/23: Modes of Production
Readings: Mittell, Chapter 5
Screening: All in the Family, I Love Lucy, The Good Guys
PAPER 1 DUE 9/23
Week 6, 9/28 & 9/30: Modes of Production, cont. COMEDY & GENRE?
Readings: Thompson, “Comedy Verite?”
Screenings: Louie, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Week 7, 10/5 & 10/7: Narrative Structure
Readings: Mittell, Chapter 6
Screenings: Mad Men, Northern Exposure
10/7 MIDTERM
Week 8, 10/12 & 10/14 Narrative Structure, cont.
Readings: Johnson, “Watching TV Makes You Smarter,” Sconce, “What If?”
Screenings: Arrested Development, Freaks & Geeks
Week 9, 10/19 & 10/21: TV “Politics”
Readings: Mittell, Chapter 7; Newcomb & Hirsch, “Television as a Cultural Forum”
Screenings: Father Knows Best, Dragnet, Star Trek
Week 10, 10/26 & 10/28: Representing Identity
Readings: Mittell, Chapter 8; Santo, “Of Niggas and Citizens”; Dow, “Ellen, Television and the Politics of Gay and Lesbian Visibility”
Screenings: Boondocks, The Sarah Silverman Program
Week 11, 11/2 & 11/4: Representing Identity, cont.
Readings: Arthurs, “Sex and the City and Consumer Culture,” Kraszeweski, “Country Hicks and Urban Cliques”
Screenings: Mary Tyler Moore, Maude
Week 12, 11/9 & 11/11: Cult TV
Readings: Mittell, Chapter 9; Jenkins, “Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten”; Hills, “Defining Cult TV”
Screenings: Firefly, Slash Tapes
Week 13, 11/16 & 11/18: Children’s TV
Readings: Mittell, Chapter 10, Banet-Weiser, “Girls Rule! Gender, Feminism, and Nickelodeon”; McAllister and Giglio, “Commodity Flow of Children’s TV”
Screenings: Pee Wee’s Playhouse, iCarly
Paper #2 Due 11/18
Week 14, 11/23: TV Technologies
Mittell, Chapter 11
Screenings: Breaking Bad
Week 15: 11/30 & 12/2: TV & Taste
Readings: Thompson, “Good Demo, Bad Taste”; Rowe, “Roseanne: Unruly Woman as Domestic Goddess”
Screenings: Tim & Eric’s Awesome Show, Great Job!, Eastbound and Down
Week 16: 12/7 The End of Television (Criticism)
Parting thoughts, Review
Week 2, 8/31 & 9/2: TV History, Style, and Industry Structure
Readings: Mittell, Chapters 1 & 2; Watts, “Melancholy, Merit, and Merchandise”
Screenings: Texaco Star Theater, Tales from Tomorrow, Ernie Kovacs
Week 3, 9/7 & 9/9: New TV Structures
Readings: Caldwell, “Convergence Television”; Brooker, “Living on Dawson’s Creek”
Screening: Tosh.0, Justified
Week 4, 9/14 & 9/16: Public Interest and Television Citizenship
Readings: Mittell, Chapters 3 & 4
Screening: Good Night and Good Luck
Week 5, 9/21 & 9/23: Modes of Production
Readings: Mittell, Chapter 5
Screening: All in the Family, I Love Lucy, The Good Guys
PAPER 1 DUE 9/23
Week 6, 9/28 & 9/30: Modes of Production, cont. COMEDY & GENRE?
Readings: Thompson, “Comedy Verite?”
Screenings: Louie, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Week 7, 10/5 & 10/7: Narrative Structure
Readings: Mittell, Chapter 6
Screenings: Mad Men, Northern Exposure
10/7 MIDTERM
Week 8, 10/12 & 10/14 Narrative Structure, cont.
Readings: Johnson, “Watching TV Makes You Smarter,” Sconce, “What If?”
Screenings: Arrested Development, Freaks & Geeks
Week 9, 10/19 & 10/21: TV “Politics”
Readings: Mittell, Chapter 7; Newcomb & Hirsch, “Television as a Cultural Forum”
Screenings: Father Knows Best, Dragnet, Star Trek
Week 10, 10/26 & 10/28: Representing Identity
Readings: Mittell, Chapter 8; Santo, “Of Niggas and Citizens”; Dow, “Ellen, Television and the Politics of Gay and Lesbian Visibility”
Screenings: Boondocks, The Sarah Silverman Program
Week 11, 11/2 & 11/4: Representing Identity, cont.
Readings: Arthurs, “Sex and the City and Consumer Culture,” Kraszeweski, “Country Hicks and Urban Cliques”
Screenings: Mary Tyler Moore, Maude
Week 12, 11/9 & 11/11: Cult TV
Readings: Mittell, Chapter 9; Jenkins, “Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten”; Hills, “Defining Cult TV”
Screenings: Firefly, Slash Tapes
Week 13, 11/16 & 11/18: Children’s TV
Readings: Mittell, Chapter 10, Banet-Weiser, “Girls Rule! Gender, Feminism, and Nickelodeon”; McAllister and Giglio, “Commodity Flow of Children’s TV”
Screenings: Pee Wee’s Playhouse, iCarly
Paper #2 Due 11/18
Week 14, 11/23: TV Technologies
Mittell, Chapter 11
Screenings: Breaking Bad
Week 15: 11/30 & 12/2: TV & Taste
Readings: Thompson, “Good Demo, Bad Taste”; Rowe, “Roseanne: Unruly Woman as Domestic Goddess”
Screenings: Tim & Eric’s Awesome Show, Great Job!, Eastbound and Down
Week 16: 12/7 The End of Television (Criticism)
Parting thoughts, Review
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Dude, You Have No Quran!
This is what I call uplifting television. It's news coverage like this that gives me hope and here's why: 1) A Quran-burning is foiled in Amarillo, TX. If it can be foiled in Amarillo, it can be foiled anywhere. 2) There are enough Unitarian Universalists in Amarillo to outnumber potential Quran-burners, and they're organized! 3) The individual hero here is a skateboarder with truly hip hair and glasses, and he's a man of action.
Jacob Isom, you are the American Bad-Ass Patriot of the Week!
I first saw Jacob as I see many things, excerpted in Daily Show coverage. The actual footage embedded above I found after a friend/colleague posted it to Facebook. This week in my Television Criticism class we're talking about TV news and the public service function of TV. I'd say it's good timing because of the current hubbub about whether the media should have paid so much attention to that obviously wayward Florida pastor-apparently-without-a-congregation. I'd say that, but of course there's always some questionable media coverage going on. And ever generalizing about "the media" is a questionable act in itself.
Anyway, here's a link to a longer clip from the episode of the Daily Show. I can't get the embed code to work.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-september-13-2010/islamophobiapalooza
Aside from Jacob, the best moment of it is when Stewart describes TV news/the media as the dog from the movie Up, which is outfitted with a special collar that allows it to talk intelligently, but is still given to uncontrollable urges to drop everything at the sight of a "Squirrel!"
Anyway, the local news coverage from Amarillo makes me happy. Never thought I'd say that. Thank you, Jacob.
Jacob Isom, you are the American Bad-Ass Patriot of the Week!
I first saw Jacob as I see many things, excerpted in Daily Show coverage. The actual footage embedded above I found after a friend/colleague posted it to Facebook. This week in my Television Criticism class we're talking about TV news and the public service function of TV. I'd say it's good timing because of the current hubbub about whether the media should have paid so much attention to that obviously wayward Florida pastor-apparently-without-a-congregation. I'd say that, but of course there's always some questionable media coverage going on. And ever generalizing about "the media" is a questionable act in itself.
Anyway, here's a link to a longer clip from the episode of the Daily Show. I can't get the embed code to work.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-september-13-2010/islamophobiapalooza
Aside from Jacob, the best moment of it is when Stewart describes TV news/the media as the dog from the movie Up, which is outfitted with a special collar that allows it to talk intelligently, but is still given to uncontrollable urges to drop everything at the sight of a "Squirrel!"
Anyway, the local news coverage from Amarillo makes me happy. Never thought I'd say that. Thank you, Jacob.
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