Film Studies 2153A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cliffhanger, Raymond Williams, Fingerprint

• School: Western University
• Department: Film Studies
• Course: Film Studies 2153A/B
• Professor: Erica Lawson

Document Summary

We like to see people get reprimanded. We expect a certain level of sophisicaion. Relatable to the selves we wish we were. Television in its original form is dead according to butler. Time-shiting: don"t necessarily have to watch tv when it airs or watch it live, now we can watch it later at a ime more convenient. Locaion-shiting: we don"t have to watch tv in our living rooms, we can watch it anywhere now. Tv narraive analysis (butler, pgs 430-431: analysis of polysemy (how tv programs make meaning, polysemy and meaning making. Key axioms: segments of television are texts that contain meanings, not all meanings are equally presented a structured polysemy. Goal of tb analysis is to examine this hierarchy of meanings: tv viewing involves the interacion of discourses of the text with those of the viewer. Discourse: socially produced languages and forms of communicaion used to convey meanings about the world.