PERLS304 Lecture Notes - Main Plot, Narrative Structure, Super Bowl

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Physical Education, Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Course: PERLS304
• Professor: Sean Ryan

Document Summary

If media clip is indicating a particular concept, make sure you indicate it. Class should have a general idea of what happened in the clip: sports is a major component on the tv menu. Sport discourse: presented as apolitical and ahistorical, usually the sport event is portrayed as having some sort of history in relation to itself. Do you remember the athens olympics: apolitical we ignore the political events happening during sports. We forget about the fall of the ussr during the 92 barcelona olympics. The article says there is media logic, tv sport as news, or tv sport as entertainment. 1. ) narrative shows are driven by story plot, character, setting, etc. If drama is lacking, commentators will invent moments to focus on. Commentators talking about the preview for the superbowl: main plot element is conflict (between teams) but this is simplistically rendered as good vs.