March 28/30: Wish/Shame: Reality TV

No, Really:  We’re Doing This to Help Them

America’s Next Top Model:  Cycle 4

Cycle 6

Gritty Realism?

COPS (excerpts)

Manipulative Storytelling

American Idol:  audition:  James Durbin

American Idol:  audition:  Inessa Lee

American Idol:  Simon Cowell’s Various Insults

American Idol:  Jermaine Jones Ejected from Show

Showbiz Tonight:  Jermaine Jones Responds to Ejection

Generating Conflict

Wife Swap:  Long/Stephens-Fowler

Wife Swap Follow-Up:  “The Worst Husband in the World”

The Man as Prize

The Bachelor:  S15E11

Further Discussion

Toddlers and Tiaras:  Alana

Toddlers and Tiaras:  “Queens and Kings of America”

Fear Factor:  Scary Haircut

Little People, Big World:  Zach’s First Date

February 28 / March 2: Where Soaps and Cop Shows Meet: The New Procedural

The Old Procedural

Dragnet:  S2E4, “The Big Seventeen” (1952):

The Daytime Soap

All My Children:  Brooke learns of Laura’s death (1988):

 

February 14/16: Action as Cultural Paranoia

They’re Not Dolls, We Swear

G.I. Joe commercial, 1964:

 

February 7/9: And They All Look Just the Same: Sitcoms

Sitcom Ancestors

Punch-and-Judy Show:

Physical Comedy

I Love Lucy:

Augmenting the Laugh Track

WKRP in Cincinatti:

All in the Family

Archie Bunker and Sammy Davis, Jr.:

Friends

…without a laugh track:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLvB_ybcKt0

January 31 / February 2, 2011: Building Stories: Approaches to Genre (and a Look at Serial Drama)

Fun with Cancellations

Arrested Development:

Family Guy:

http://www.ovfile.com/x6dgbv5hao3c

January 24/26: Blacklisting vs. the Hurricane

News Coverage of Hurricane Katrina

WBRZ and WGNO (ABC Affiliates):

Fox:

Spin?

Kanye West:

See It Now, 1954

From “A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy:

McCarthy’s Rebuttal, Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

 

A Reporter Loses It

 

Fox News:

 

January 17/19, 2011: Television and Culture

This blog displays the YouTube clips shown in class on the week of January 7th.

The Kennedy-Nixon Debate

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

Part 4:

Game Show:  Tic Tac Dough (1957)

No, really, I didn’t know the answers beforehand; I swear:

Advertisements:  Ford

1950s:

1960s:

1970s:

1980s:

1990s:

2000s:

2011:

One More Because It’s Awesome

He’s on a horse: