TV narrative analysis

1.  Assess the kinds of critiques offered by media reviewers – nature of online discourse

  • Established media critics:  Upon what basis are shows evaluated?  What concerns and issues are raised?
  • Fan discourses – what are the pleasures
  • Critical resistance?  Challenges to mainstream representation?

 

2.  Analyze narrative meanings  (also characters, settings)

  • In what ways does the narrative reflect dominant discourses – beliefs, values, myths, worldview?
  • Conversely, in what ways (if any) does it interrupt, resist?
  • What stories aren’t told?

 

3.  Formulate alternatives

  • What stories do you want to tell?
  • How might you shift the narrative?  Mobilize critical viewer response?

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