The University of Southern Mississippi The Aquila Digital Community Dissertations Spring 5-2015 Running Contradiction: A Negotiated Reading of Encoding Strategies in the Boondocks Animated Series, 2005-2011 Wesley Tyler French University of Southern Mississippi Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations Part of the Film and Media Studies Commons Recommended Citation French, Wesley Tyler, "Running Contradiction: A Negotiated Reading of Encoding Strategies in the Boondocks Animated Series, 2005-2011" (2015). Dissertations. 104. https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations/104 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The University of Southern Mississippi RUNNING CONTRADICTION: A NEGOTIATED READING OF ENCODING STRATEGIES IN THE BOONDOCKS ANIMATED SERIES, 2005-2011 by Wesley Tyler French Abstract of a Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate School of The University of Southern Mississippi in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy May 2015 ABSTRACT RUNNING CONTRADICTION: A NEGOTIATED READING OF ENCODING STRATEGIES IN THE BOONDOCKS ANIMATED SERIES, 2005-2011 by Wesley Tyler French May 2015 This study is comprised of a five-point qualitative critical analysis of denotation strategies employed in the first three seasons of The Boondocks Animated Series, which aired on United States cable television between 2005 and 2011. The five encoding strategies discussed in this study were selectively employed into each episode by the cast and crew of The Boondocks Animated Series.