RHETOR 138 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Diegesis, Bojack Horseman, Social Comparison Theory
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***focus and framed by articles, don"t lose sight of the big picture. ***overarching approach - don"t get lost in the details how to connect seriality with the paradoxical reality of the show. Paradox: productive logic of the paradox, think about how do i describe or present the paradoxical structure of the stylistic elements such as they are productive. Describe details of style, talk about specific meaning. Frank breaking the forth wall- in some sense, the world you see is frank"s world. Characters are franks" characters because he manipulates them all. Francis" world (fourth wall)- frank"s memory palace: claire"s breaking of the wall. The question i"m exploring is why house of cards as a series is so popular despite being inaccurate about modern day politics. Paradox of authenticity: dem president doing away with entitlements- content. ** how stylistic elements (not reading of the plot) establishes meaning. Format: episodic , serial (4 seasons and going)- serial as opposed to episodic.
