tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30690257.post5806043209681213434..comments2024-03-21T04:11:40.462-07:00Comments on Category D: A Film and Media Studies Blog: TitlingChris Caglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11896423565458620046noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30690257.post-6789674281542779282008-09-14T15:06:00.000-07:002008-09-14T15:06:00.000-07:00Middento, the use of Genette sounds helpful. Maybe...Middento, the use of Genette sounds helpful. Maybe you should dust off that paper!<BR/><BR/>Michael, great point. I'll defer to your expertise on the matter and, besides, I'm always fond of a good political economy explanation.Chris Caglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11896423565458620046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30690257.post-87868971669711830402008-09-14T12:05:00.000-07:002008-09-14T12:05:00.000-07:00Interesting post. Another factor to explain the de...Interesting post. Another factor to explain the delayed TV titles: shows have more acts than they used to, so what was once a brief "teaser" before the credit sequence now functions as one of five or six acts, which allows the networks more frequent commercial breaks. I understand this shift to be much more economically than creatively motivated. Interestingly in this regard, the shows with the most prestige on TV, HBO series and their imitators on other cable channels, often have no teaser or pre-credits act, and go straight from the "previously" to the credit sequence.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30690257.post-77117679013424121212008-09-14T09:29:00.000-07:002008-09-14T09:29:00.000-07:00Thanks for the nice mention, Chris, and for the po...Thanks for the nice mention, Chris, and for the pointer to David Bordwell's discussion (which I enjoyed, as always, while marveling that the man can write so much, as always).<BR/><BR/>I share your interest in film titles' graphic presentation and am intrigued by your idea of a history of the practice. Your post on Stallion Road, in fact, was what made me decide to write about the Fringe titles in relation to Fincher's digital flourishes.Bob Rehakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06773708649938171019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30690257.post-90273323178256427832008-09-14T07:19:00.000-07:002008-09-14T07:19:00.000-07:00I have always been fascinated by titling myself an...I have always been fascinated by titling myself and just brought up an ancient paper I wrote on title sequences in graduate school. At the time (this is back 12 years ago), I didn't find any articles on titles per se (though at the time I hadn't yet read CHC myself either). I remember finding Genette's "Structure and Function of the Title in Literature" somewhat helpful. My questions at the time simply revolved around the notion of when a movie begins: at the title, or before? and therefore what is the place of the "pre-title sequence"? I used <I>Tom Jones</I> as my case study example, the title sequence of which I still show in class today.Middentohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13829095129849712488noreply@blogger.com