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College Course File: Star Images, Star Performances
A sample course on star images and performances. Jeremy G. Butler, Journal of Film and Video 42:4 (Winter 1990): 49-66.
'I'm Not a Doctor, But I Play One on TV': Characters, Actors, and Acting in Television Soap Opera
An analysis of performance and the semiotic function of actors in the soap opera. Jeremy G. Butler, Cinema Journal 30:4 (Summer 1991): 75-91.
Notes on the Soap Opera Apparatus: Televisual Style and ŇAs the World Turns
An analysis of the semiotic function of style in the soap opera. Jeremy G. Butler, Cinema Journal 25:3 (Spring 1986): 53-70.
The Raw and the Cooked 1984: Three Recent Films
Structural anthropology is applied to three films released in 1984: Iceman, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, and Splash. Jeremy G. Butler, Journal of Film and Video 37:4 (Fall 1985): 5-14.
Redesigning Discourse: Feminism, the Sitcom,and Designing Women
The ideological effect of feminist discourse within the sitcom. Jeremy G. Butler, Cinema Journal 45:1 (Spring 1993): 13-26.

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