Reflexive sitcom form itself encodes economic and intertextual synergy structures

Evidence

In effect, this concrete, textual manifestation of economic and intertextual ­synergy is so fundamental to the form of reflexive sitcoms as to constitute ­mise-en-synergy. While traditional mise-en-scène is about the relation between visual style and meaning, mise-en-synergy concerns the multi-platform relationship between audiovisual style, meaning, and economics. It can be thought of as a schematic and quantitative approach to the vast, multi-platform, intertextual components that comprise contemporary cultural texts. Using tools such as data ­mining, distant reading, and data visualization, the economic and intertextual parameters of the form of visual texts can be investigated on a scale that would not be possible without computation. A specific attention to mise-en-synergy highlights both textual and financial phenomena, interlocking processes that inform ­strategies of representation as well as structures of financialization. This ­mise-en-synergy should be seen not (just) as a crass business decision, but as an integral part of the canvas upon which contemporary cultural texts paint their commercial art. — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 383

In effect, this concrete, textual manifestation of economic and intertextual ­synergy is so fundamental to the form of reflexive sitcoms as to constitute ­mise-en-synergy. While traditional mise-en-scène is about the relation between visual style and meaning, mise-en-synergy concerns the multi-platform relationship between audiovisual style, meaning, and economics. It can be thought of as a schematic and quantitative approach to the vast, multi-platform, intertextual components that comprise contemporary cultural texts. Using tools such as data ­mining, distant reading, and data visualization, the economic and intertextual parameters of the form of visual texts can be investigated on a scale that would not be possible without computation. — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 383

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the chapter’s central coined term, mise-en-synergy, as a methodological lens for reading finance in text.
• SEED: The framework of mise-en-synergy as a quantitative, computable method could anchor an article on reading financial structures directly off textual form.
• XREF: Extends the core thesis of this book — finance leaves fingerprints on artistic form — into an operationalized, computational reading method.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media: How Wall Street…, 383