Episode 20:
Three Times as Many Laughs
January, 2015
Don't fear the numbers! In a fascinating (and funny) interview, we talk to Jeremy Butler about how he uses quantitative analysis and digital tools to better understand film and television style. Then we continue bringing you interviews with great film and media scholars from the folks at Fieldnotes: this month Thomas Waugh talks with Linda Williams about Jump Cut, the pornography wars of the 1980s, and her more recent work on race and melodrama.
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News & Notes
Wayne’s World flashbacks
The Aca-Media survey
The results of Bill’s training at Price Waterhouse
Cinema Journal Presents: Jeremy Butler
Jeremy Butler’s CJ essay “Statistical Analysis of Television Style: What Can Numbers Tell Us about TV Editing?” (PDF preview here)
Jeremy Butler’s page at the University of Alabama and his blog
Television Style
Television: Critical Methods and Applications
Screen-L
ScreenSite
All Things Acoustic
Raymond Bellour
Steven Heath at Amazon
Bordwell & Thompson’s Film Art
Tara McPherson
Shuhua Zhou’s page at the University of Alabama
Rob Potter’s page at Indiana University
Shot Logger
Laugh Logger
Happy Days
Garry Marshall
Carl Mahakian at IMDB
The Big Bang Theory
I Love Lucy
Brett Mills, Television Sitcom
Example of The Big Bang Theory without the laugh track
The Comeback
Ken Kwapis
Jeremy’s Afterthoughts and Postscripts essay
Fieldnotes: Linda Williams
The Fieldnotes home page, including the complete interview with Linda Williams
Interviewer Thomas Waugh’s page at Ryerson
Linda Williams at UC-Berkeley and Wikipedia and Amazon
Julia Lesage
Julia Lesage's essay "S/Z and Rules of the Game" (since Jump Cut's link is broken as of this posting, this takes you to EBSCOHost)
Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media
Chuck Kleinhans
Christian Metz
Jump Cut’s 1985 special issue on pornography
The pornography debates of the 1980s
Not a Love Story
Bonnie Sherr Klein
Ruby Rich
Ruby Rich's essay on Not a Love Story, "Anti-Porn: Soft Issue, Hard World"
Candida Royalle
Laura Mulvey
Mary Ann Doane
Christine Gledhill
O. J. Simpson’s White Bronco car chase
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Birth of a Nation
The Clansman by Thomas F. Dixon, Jr.
The Jazz Singer
Gone With the Wind
Roots
Rodney King
O. J. Simpson
The Wire
Contributors to Fieldnotes
- Haidee Wasson at Concordia and at SCMS
- Barb Klinger at Indiana University Bloomington and at SCMS
- Patrice Petro at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee and at SCMS
- Matthew Ogonoski at Concordia
- Beatriz Bartolome (Herrera) at Academia.edu
- Andrew Miller at Sacred Heart University and at SCMS
- ARTHEMIS (Advanced Research Team on History and Epistemology of Moving Image Study)
What We’re Watching
China Beach
Stacy Takacs
Anna Froula
Doctor Who
Upstairs Downstairs
The Guiding Light
Scandal
Peaky Blinders
You’re the Worst