Pop Entertainment Ed

What is Popular Entertainment Education?

2010-01-02T01:05:00.001-05:00

Entertainment-education has been traditionally defined as "the process of purposely designing and implementing a media message both to entertain and educate" about health and social issues....

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What is a blog? How do you subscribe to a blog?

2010-01-01T17:10:00.001-05:00

I've searched the Internet and I think the following videos do a great job in explaining basic blogging concepts (blog, reader, rss feed, etc.). After watching these videos you'll be able to...

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My Approach to EE - Reverse Engineering

2009-04-04T13:02:00.012-04:00

I am interested in studying past stories (on TV & film) that have tried to treat health and social ills. I'm focusing specifically on the social ill of prejudice (racism, etc.). I am attempting...

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Stephen Duncan on Theme

2009-03-15T00:51:00.003-04:00

Duncan (2006) identifies five types of story conflict themes: "1. Man versus Man 2. Man versus Nature 3. Man versus Self 4. Man versus Society 5. Man versus Fate" (p. 26-27). In individual movies the...

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Finding Theme and Exploring the Theme with Howard

2009-03-15T00:46:00.003-04:00

Howard (2004) suggests that a script writer should first do some writing and try to discover the theme in the early drafts by asking some questions: "what kind of change does your protagonist go...

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Howard: Theme vs. Thesis

2009-03-15T00:46:00.001-04:00

According to Howard (2004) a story's theme is "the aspect of the 'human dilemma' that it will explore (p. 131). Two examples he gives are jealousy and ambition. We could also add hate as an example....

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Cultural Pedagogy

2009-02-27T23:47:00.003-05:00

There may be a relevant link between pop entertainment ed and cultural...

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Moritz on Theme in Scriptwriting

2009-02-14T15:29:00.005-05:00

Moritz (2001) writes about the two schools of thought regarding themes in scripts. One school of thought says that you should have a clear theme before writing a script and another school of thought...

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Theme According to Epstein

2009-02-14T14:46:00.009-05:00

Theme, according to Epstein (2002), is "the underlying, human question your story deals with. Your main character, stakes, jeopardy, and obstacles give us reasons why we care about how the story...

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Howard, 2004

2009-02-14T14:45:00.001-05:00

Howard, D. (2004). How to build a great screenplay : A master class in storytelling for film. St. Martin's Press.

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Carlson, 1985

2009-02-14T14:40:00.000-05:00

Carlson, J. M. (1985). Prime time law enforcement : crime show viewing and attitudes toward the criminal justice system. Praeger.

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Duncan, 2006

2009-02-14T14:36:00.000-05:00

Duncan, S. V. (2006). A Guide to Screenwriting Success: Writing for Film and Television. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

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Moritz, 2001

2009-02-14T14:33:00.001-05:00

Moritz, C. (2001). Scriptwriting for the screen. Media skills. Routledge.

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Epstein, 2002

2009-02-14T14:28:00.001-05:00

Epstein, A. (2002). Crafty Screenwriting: Writing Movies That Get Made. Holt Paperbacks: New York.

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What are the ethical issues of promoting prosocial messages in popular media?

2009-01-19T17:47:00.006-05:00

Brown & Singhal (1997) ask this interesting question. They are writing about all prosocial media, but what would be the ethical issues here? Would there be ethical issues to address when using...

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Brown & Singhal, 1997

2009-01-19T17:44:00.001-05:00

Brown, W. J., & Singhal, A. (1997). Ethical guidelines for promoting prosocial messages through the popular media. In G. Egerton, M. Marsden, & J. Nachbar (Eds.), In the eye of the beholder:...

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A Secret Education

2009-01-04T18:18:00.004-05:00

"Industrially produced fiction has become one of the primary shapers of our emotions and our intellect in the 20th Century. Although these stories are supposed to merely entertain us, they...

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Dorfman, 1996

2009-01-04T18:15:00.001-05:00

Dorfman, A. (1996). The Empire's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds. Penguin (Non-Classics).

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Cortes on Plato and Poets

2009-01-04T18:06:00.003-05:00

Cortes (2000) also comments on Plato. "This is hardly a contemporary idea. After all, Plato recognized the power of fictional narratives when he asserted, 'Those who tell the stories also rule the...

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Lewis & Jungman, 1986

2009-01-04T17:59:00.001-05:00

Lewis, T. J. and Jungman, R. E., editors (1986). On Being Foreign: Culture Shock in Short Fiction, An International Anthology. Intercultural Pr.

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Summerfield, 1993

2009-01-04T17:56:00.001-05:00

Summerfield, E. (1993). Crossing Cultures Through Film. Intercultural Network.

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Cortes, 2000

2009-01-04T17:51:00.001-05:00

Cortes, C. E. (2000) The Children Are Watching: How the Media Teach About Diversity, New York: Teachers College Press.

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Vogler, 1998

2009-01-04T17:49:00.001-05:00

Vogler, C. (1998). The Writers Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, 2nd Edition. Michael Wiese Productions, 2nd edition.

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Truby, 2008

2009-01-04T17:47:00.001-05:00

Truby, J. (2008). The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller. Faber & Faber, 1st edition.

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An Anti-Prejudice Genre in TV and Film

2009-01-04T12:58:00.003-05:00

Preliminary results of this study show that there is so much TV programming about prejudice that I would argue that we could speak of this type of programming as a genre.

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