TCM

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TCMA Highlights

• Chapters
• 1 2

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CHAPTER 1

• Television Texts or Segments
• Polysemy - multiple meanings
• Structured or Hierarchical
• Contradictory
• Discourse - socially based belief structures
• Viewer Originated
• TV text Originated

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CHAPTER 2

• A NARRATIVE
• The recounting of a
• Series of cause and effect events,
• Occurring in space and time.

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Classic Narrative ElementsAs Applied to TV
Narrative Texts

• Single/Multiple Protagonist(s)
• Exposition
• Motivation
• Narrative Enigma or question
• Cause-Effect Chain of events
• Climax
• Resolution or Denouement

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Different Narrative Formats on Television
Theatrical Movies Made-For-TV Movies The TV
Series The TV Serial