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Verses: The Creation and Destruction of Televisions Imaginary Worlds 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, September 18, 2011 Watch on YouTube

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Verses: The Creation and Destruction of Televisions Imaginary Worlds Televisions Apartment Building, 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, September 18, 2011

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Verses: The Creation and Destruction of Televisions Imaginary Worlds Televisions Apartment Building, 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, September 18, 2011

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Verses: The Creation and Destruction of Televisions Imaginary Worlds Jesse Pinkman (Breaking Bad) Delivers to Creed Bratton (The Office) Televisions Apartment Building, 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, September 18, 2011

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Verses: The Creation and Destruction of Televisions Imaginary Worlds Televisions Apartment Building, 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, September 18, 2011

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The Un-dead Auteur Chair: Peter Krmer J. W. Briggs: Unaired Pilot or Bad Quarto: Textual Problems in Buffy and Shakespeare in an Internet Age J. Gray: Resurrecting The Author: Joss Whedons Place In Buffys Textual Universe D. Lavery: A Religion in Narrative: Joss Whedon and Television Creativity 2002 Film Studies

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Freaks and Geeks The Simpsons Freaks and Geeks The Simpsons 2010 Film Studies

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2006. Watching with The Simpsons: Television, Parody, and Intertextuality. New York: Routledge. 2007. Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated Era. New York: New York University Press. 2008. Television Entertainment. New York: Routledge. 2009. Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era. New York: New York University Press. 2010. Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts. New York: New York University Press. 2011. Television Studies. London: Polity. 2013. A Companion to Media Authorship. Boston: Blackwell. University of California, Berkeley Fordham University University of Wisconsin Film Studies

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Professor Gray now holds a position at the University of Wisconsin which once belonged to John Fiske. Film Studies

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Art explains; entertainment exploits. Art is freedom from the conditions of memory; entertainment is conditional on a present that is conditioned by the past. Entertainment gives us what we want. Art gives us what we don't know we want.Gene Youngblood, Expanded Cinema

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Film Studies Television Studies Terminology activated text: A television program which generates buzz.buzz adaptation: Transforming a story conceived for another medium (a novel, a play, movie) so that it may be retold in a television series or movie. allusion: A conscious, meaningful reference to another work of art or indeed to anything outside the television text. ancillary text: Both secondary (criticism, publicity) and tertiary (discussion and commentary occurring at the fan level) texts. beat: In a television episode, an emotional or dramatic mini- climax punctuating the larger story. boutique television: A new, 1990s concept of television programming in the cable era in which programs are developed for small niche audiences with ideal demographics.

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Film Studies Television Studies Terminology break: The process of plotting out a single episode of a television series, positioning beats, act breaks, etc.beatsact breaks buzz: Cultural talk, at the water cooler and elsewhere, about a television series or other pop culture phenomenon.water cooler cliffhanger: A dramatic, episode-ending or season-ending, event intended to bring viewers back next week/next year and to inspire media buzz between episodes/seasons. The most famous cliffhanger in TV history was, of course, the "Who Shot JR?" ending on Dallas (1981). commodity intertext: Both official and unofficial fiction and non-fiction produced to satisfy the often cultic needs of television fans to know moremuch moreand imagine more about their favorite programs.

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Film Studies Television Studies Terminology continuous serial: "The storylines of most 'continuous serials'... [are] deliberately left hanging at the end of each episode; nearly all plots initiated in a continuous serial were designed to be infinitely continued and extended.... the individual episodes of a continuous serial have much more of a linear feel, leading regular viewers to believe they 'could not miss an episode.'... in a continuous serial, narrative change is all" (Dolan). couch potato: "A person who spends much time sitting or lying down, usually watching television" (Dictionary.com). credit sequence: That segment of a movie or television episode's beginning in which the credits appear, either as titles overlaying the action or separately, outside the diegesis.diegesis

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Film Studies Television Studies Terminology crossover: When the characters ordinarily appearing on a television series put in an appearance, crossing over to, another television series.

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Verses: The Creation and Destruction of Televisions Imaginary Worlds Detective John Munch (Richard Belzer) 1. Homicide: Life on the Streets122 episodes 2. Law & Order4 episodes 3. The X-Files1 episode 4. The Beat1 episode 6. Law & Order: Trial by Jury1 episode 7. Arrested Development1 episode 8. The Wire1 episode 9. 30 Rock1 episode 10. Jimmy Kimmel Live! 11. Sesame StreetA Muppet representation of Detective Munch appeared in the Sesame Street sketch "Law & Order: Special Letters Unit

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Film Studies Television Studies Terminology cult tv: Television which attracts and sustains a usually small but rabid audience, the members of which begin to use the show in cultish fashion. According to Reeves: "By the 1990s, there were generally two types of cult television shows. The first type, in the tradition of Star Trek, is comprised of prime- time network programs that failed to generate large ratings numbers, but succeeded in attracting substantial numbers of avid fans. Twin Peaks is the most outstanding recent example of this category. Shows of the second type first appear on

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