COMN 3316/Television as Culture November 12, Lecture Slides
Agenda Formal definition of ◦Binaries ◦Icon Review of Television Studies (last week) Project Description Beginning our more in depth look at Nation & Television: Then Canada & Television Some introductory clips Beginning to think about a “history” of “Canadian Television” and “Canadian Identity”
Binaries ◦A analytical tool ◦Finding and using pairs for analysis ◦Finding and using powerful pairs to work through meaning structures ◦We are used to doing this through exercise of contrast and compare ◦We also often think about this in grammar of the subject/object ◦There are other binary relationships available for analysis and use for cultural analysis: Figure/ground Folds (as an example) Using aesthetic themes (space, architecture)
ICON An image acquires a thickness around its use in culture This use includes a clear reference (example godhead) But also has folds – a cultural adaptability that can be expanded to accommodate new means (example kingship) This image can be used to transmit and address a complex of cultural values and thus also their connected performances This image often occupies more than one sensory realm
ICON This image is reducible to simple elements – yet is not reductionistic. This image may acquire words – yet words are not easily sufficient enough to define the image This image is often visual or able to be made visual This image has a recognized cultural currency This currency is able to be translated into varied forms, and cultural performances
ICON Barbie?
CBC iconography? 1982? CBLT 1989 (CBC – CBWT) Vintage unclear 2000 to present (CBC) to 2006 (and present ?) (CBC - CBOT)1997 to 2006
Television studies review November 5 lecture
Real/Not Real Boy in Striped Pajamas Missing news & presidential candidate Proudly She Marches Eyewitness Arrival
Real/Not Real Boy in Striped Pajamas Missing news & presidential candidate Proudly She Marches Eyewitness Arrival NFB / Becomes CFNB Which is absorbed by CBC eventually
CNFB On the Spot
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Perhaps familiar? CBC excerpts Pxe6g90ePb4 Pxe6g90ePb