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ENG 440
Professor Ian Nolte
How important is television to you?
Cinematic Television
Do you watch television?
What do you watch on television?
How active a viewer are you of television shows?
Is television viewed differently from film?
Television versus Film
How do you feel about television versus film?
Early Television
Origins of Television
The Honeymooners
1955
Gunsmoke
1955
Television broadcasts became popular in the 1940s following World War II.
Modern Television
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
2005
How have television genres evolved?
Westworld
2016
Complex TV
Jason Mittell
Television narrative began to evolve rapidly in the year 2000 when cheap disc media made entire seasons of television shows accessible at once.
What is Complex TV?
Complex TV
"In the past 15 years, television's storytelling possibilities and practices have undergone drastic shifts specific to the medium."
"Complex TV is about this shift, exploring how television storytelling has changed and what cultural practices within television technology, industry, and viewership have enabled and encouraged these transformations."
"One reason why television's formal narrative properties have been ignored is the assumption that television storytelling is simplistic. Previous accounts of the medium's narrative tendencies tend to focus on the centrality of genre formulas, repetitive situations, redundant exposition suited for the surfing viewers, and the structural constraints based around commercial breaks and rigid schedules."
"Poetics can be defined broadly as the focus on the specific ways that texts make meaning, concerned with formal aspects of the media more than issues of content or broader cultural forces--in short, the guiding question for poetics looking at a cultural text such as a television series is "how does this text work?"
"There are numerous other series that might be understood as key examples of complex television or that might counter some of my analytic claims. I hope that some readers use this book to launch their own analyses of such examples to strengthen our understanding of the poetics of contemporary television storytelling, as I believe the concepts and claims I develop are broadly applicable to a wide range of programs and genres."
How will we use this text?
Our Study
What does Mittell say about how television narrative functions?
What do we observe when we closely view television narrative?
How do we analyze and interpret television narrative by using or interrogating Mittell's claims?
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