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Film80S: Special Topics in Televison
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 1
06/07/2009

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Supertext
Definition
[Nick Browne: The Political Economy of the Television (Super) Text] a particular program along with introductory, interstitial, and concluding materials
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Megatext
Definition
[Nick Browne: The Political Economy of the Television (Super) Text] everything that has ever been on television, ever
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Producerly Text
Definition
[John Fiske: Moments of Television; Neither the Text nor the Audience] does not prescribe either a set of meanings or a set of reading relations for the viewer; instead it delegates the production of meaning to the viewer/producer
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MSD (Mobile Screening Device)
Definition
[Heidi Cooly: “It’s All About the Fit: The Hand, the Mobile Screenic Device, and Tactile Vision”] the handheld screening device; allows for “tactile vision” or seeing with the hands and eyes
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Docu-real
Definition
[John Caldwell: “Prime-Time Fiction Theorizes the Docu-Real”] programs that self-consciously showcase documentary units or modes as a part of their narrative and plot.
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Flow
Definition
[Lynne Joyrich: “The Epistemology of the Console”] the flux of textual bits which paradoxically creates a sense of continuity through discontinuity
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Convergence
Definition
[Henry Jenkins: “The Cultural Logic of Media Convergence”] the television text and television audience is interlocked in the process of viewing; viewers gain pleasure from making meaning out of texts, which require reading
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Liveness
Definition
[Jane Feuer: “The Concept of Live Television: Ontology as Ideology”] the idea that events are portrayed as they happen; even if screening is not live, the signal is live
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Neo-Liberalism
Definition
[Laurie Ouellette: “’Take Responsibility for Yourself’: Judge Judy and the Neoliberal Citizen] an economic and political philosophy that calls for a free market economy and espouses individual rights and responsibilities over that of a collective order
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Witnessing
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[John Ellis: “Television: Live Witness Realized”] witnesses as audience and consumer; viewing something as it happens.
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Slash
Definition
[Sarah Gwenillian-Jones: “The Sex Lives of Cult Television Characters”] a fantasy extension of a logic already inscribed, moving into the realm of sexuality
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Fringe Area
Definition
[Lisa Parks: “Where the Cable Ends: Television beyond Fringe Areas”] areas located 25 miles or more from transmitter that experience reception problems, such as weak or snowy pictures.
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Carnation Milk
Definition
(The Burns and Allen Show: "Income Tax Man" [original air-date: March 1, 1951])

Significance: Segmental Commodity
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Leather Jacket/History Books
Definition
(Buffy the Vampire Slayer : "Fool for Love" [Season 5, original air-date: November 14, 2000])

Significance: Evidence of History in Content
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“America”
Definition
(The Bernie Mac Show: "Handle Your Business" [Season 1, original air-date: February 13, 2002])

Significance: Direct Address
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“Word of the Day”
Definition
(Pee-Wee's Playhouse: "Ants in Your Pants" [Season 1, original air-date: November 1, 1986])

Significance: Liveness; Witnessing
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Mirror/Window Reflections
Definition
(Quantum Leap: "Color of Truth" [August 8, 1955] [Season 1, original air-date: May 10, 1989])

Significance: Speaking Subject
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‘MAC’ Cosmetics
Definition
(RuPaul's Drag Race : Episode 4 on http://www.logoonline.com)

Significance: Segmental Commodity
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Halle Berry
Definition
(The Bernie Mac Show: "Handle Your Business" [Season 1, original air-date: February 13, 2002])

Significance: Intertextuality
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Chain of Command
Definition
(The Wire: "The Target" [Season 1, original air-date: June 2, 2002])

Significance: Different Command Structures; Hierarchy
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Espresso Maker
Definition
(In Treatment: "Alex, Week 4" [Season 1, original air-date: February 19, 2008])

Significance: Segmentation
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New York City, 1977
Definition
(Buffy the Vampire Slayer : "Fool for Love" [Season 5, original air-date: November 14, 2000])

Significance: Evidence of History in Content/Form
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Holodeck
Definition
(Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Hollow Pursuits" [Season 3, original air-date: April 30, 1990])

Significance: Slash Fiction
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“The following is in black and white”
Definition
(MASH: "The Interview" [Season 4, original air-date: February 24, 1976])

Significance: Direct Address
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Cops
Definition
(The Tick: "Heroes" [Season 2, original air-date: November 11, 1995])

Significance: Intertextuality
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Detective Lucerne
Definition
(Columbo: "Fade Into Murder" [Season 6, original air-date: October 10, 1976])

Significance: Intertextuality; Speaking Subject
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