COMN 3316/Television COMN 3316/Television as Cultureas Culture

November 12, Lecture Slides

AgendaAgenda

Formal definition of ◦ Binaries◦ Icon

Review of Television Studies (last week)Project Description

Beginning our more in depth look at Nation & Television: Then Canada & TelevisionSome introductory clipsBeginning to think about a “history” of “Canadian

Television” and “Canadian Identity”

BinariesBinaries

◦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)

ICONICON

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

ICONICON

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

ICONICON

Barbie?

CBC iconography?CBC iconography?

1982? - 1987- CBLT1989 (CBC – CBWT)Vintage unclear

2000 to present (CBC)

1997 to 2006 (and present ?) (CBC - CBOT)

Television studies reviewTelevision studies review

November 5 lecture

Real/Not Real Real/Not Real

Boy in Striped Pajamas

Missing news & presidential candidate

Proudly She Marches

Eyewitness

Arrival

Real/Not Real Real/Not Real

Boy in Striped Pajamas

Missing news & presidential candidate

Proudly She Marches

Eyewitness

Arrival

NFB / Becomes CFNB

Which is absorbed byCBC eventually

CNFBCNFB

On the Spot

Autobiography/Expo andAutobiography/Expo and

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPkV6AfIhbA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__nsxOBo7o4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K96jCPORxYM&feature=related

Perhaps familiar? CBC excerptsPerhaps familiar? CBC excerpts

http://archives.cbc.ca/on_this_day/08/30/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxe6g90ePb4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpV4-JlwWt0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE6_9Bn7ID0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhVGJXuBY88&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOZUKj51pOw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6nlCWXNWFI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH0fJ5dfoGw&feature=related