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Episode 20:
Three Times as Many Laughs
January, 2015

January 23, 2015 by Bill Kirkpatrick in Podcast

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 

January 23, 2015 /Bill Kirkpatrick
Style, Quantitative Analysis, Digital Scholarship, Jeremy Butler, Pornography, Jump Cut, Linda Williams, Fieldnotes
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