This document provides character and setting details for the TV show House M.D. It includes a list of the main characters played by actors like Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, and Jennifer Morrison. It also gives information on the number of episodes and seasons, the setting in various hospitals, and the creators. Additional sections summarize details on the Zeitgeist, camera techniques, mise-en-scene, sound, editing, convergence of media for the show, and how gender, ethnicity, and age are represented.

1. Stefanie Barnes

2. Dr House
Play by Hugh Laurie
Lisa Cuddy
Played by Lisa Edelstein
Dr Allison Cameron
Played by Jennifer Morrison
Dr James Wilson
Played by Robert Sean Leonard
Remy “Thirteen” Hadley
Played by Olivia Wilde
Dr Robert Chase
Played by Jesse Spencer Lawrence Kutner
Played by Kal Penn
Dr Jessica Adams
Played by Odette Annabele
Dr Chris Taub
Played by Peter Jacobson Dr Eric Foreman
Played by Omar Epps

3. Details of the
TV Drama
• In the series, there was 178 episodes altogether which was divided into 8 seasons.
The series was also broadcasted in 2004 and the finale was aired in 2012, whilst
being set in the US the entire time and of course, during the modern times.
• The series got ranked 24th among allTV series that are running at the time and was
very popular with women that worked and wasn’t the stay at home type instead (if
any of those types of women still remain) as the dramedyof the series was
obviously catching the housewivesand families, mostly parents and some
teenagers, with its dark sense of humour that appeared a few times within the
episodes and the mysteriesit gave behind why a person caught a certain illness was
intriguing, along with wanting to know more about each main characters past.
• The series also got a Metacritic of 74 out of 100 and had a very popular start and
middle, though mixed feelings towards the finale, ranging from “could’ve done
better but did get it done right” to, “Agreat way of ending”.

4. The Setting of the Series
And Creators
• The series was set in Canada for the pilot episode and on the Bryan Singer chose the hospital near his
hometown, West Windsor, New Jersey, as the show's fictional setting. Princeton University's Frist
Campus Center is the source of the aerial views of Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital seen in the
series. Some filming took place at the University of Southern California for the season three episode
"Half-Wit", which guest-starred Dave Matthews andKurtwood Smith. Part of House's sixth season was
filmed at the abandoned Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey, as
the fictional Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital.
• House was a co-production of Heel and Toe Films, Shore Z Productions, and Bad Hat Harry Productions
in association with Universal Media Studios for Fox. PaulAttanasio and Katie Jacobs, the heads of Heel
and Toe Films; David Shore, the head of Shore Z Productions; and Bryan Singer, the head of Bad Hat
Harry Productions, were executive producers of the program for its entirety.

5. Zeitgeist
• Zeitgeist is present throughout the series as when he is performing diagnostics
in the beginning, end or even in the middle of the episode, he is often seen
playing a games console and it changes throughout the series to different ones
as at the start it is a Gameboy, then changes to a PSPand then later on, it
changes to a DS. This links with the time it was set in which would be the
present and shows the development of the series and that it’s not just set in one
time period.

6. Camera Shots / Techniques
This is a shallow focus shot and is used to show how House is avoiding Lisa who is
the one seen in the white jacket. She, and everything else in the background, is faded
out so it looks like he’s trying to blank them all out, pretend they’re not there so he
can get out of doing work again without being nagged by her which is something that
happens a lot.
This is a shot/reverse shot to show the conversation
between House and Williams as they converse about a
new patient, better known as a new ‘case’and it slowly
speeds up in the cutting the more House gets interested
in the patient and the illness that they have.
This is an aerial shot that is used to show how the operation is taking place,
who is there to assist with bring the girl back to a stable and breathing
condition and some of the items that are nearby and are either helping with
bringing the patient back or had assisted with her falling unconscious and
being unable to breathe.

7. Mise-en-scene
• In the series, you notice that all doctors wear to stereotypical white lab coats, all
except House and Lisa (when she isn’t performing a diagnosis and is trying to
handle being the head of the department and act as a boss at the start of the series. )
Though the lab coats show a sense of authority from the doctors, these two don’t
wear them, well, House doesn’t wear it at all.
• House doesn’t wear the signature white lab coat despite him being a doctor, maybe
because he wishes to be seen as a person who is no different to the patients as he is,
after all, a cripple and can’t walk properly without a walking stick. But instead,
he’ll wear his everyday wear which consists of a suit in shades of brown or black,
this can represent his emotions of resent as he wishes he could die sometimes
because of his limp.Although, the difference could be to show that he is different to
other characters and can also show him being the leading main character of the
other characters who act like leads as well.

8. Sound
• In the series, there is a ticking sound during times of wait which builds up
the suspense, along with a small build up in volume for a certain track that
almost sounds like slowed down typical elevator music.
• There’s a highlight of sound within the series of the cutting into the patient
and the blood squelching and a pump noise which can build up suspense
again more as the patient who needs the pump is unable to breathe. So
when the sound builds up in volume, all other sound stops before it echoes
into the next scene which can represent a lingering feeling of nearly losing
a patient.

9. Editing
Cutaway
This is a cutaway shot as it shows the teacher babbling like a
baby, obviously because of her illness, then cuts away to the kids
laughing and treating it like a joke. If it wasn’t the lady there but
something else, the scene would make more sense yet it shows the
oblivious nature of young kids.
Crosscutting
There’s also one other editing technique known as the crosscutting which is used but I think it was used subtly as it
was used when House picked up a letter that is to the parents and is apparently signed by him but is initially signed by
someone else. It shows the concerned parents in the background before showing the letter which would be the
foreground and zooms in on the letter before zooming out then showing us that the background has changed along
with the scene whilst the letter had taken up all of the space on the shot.

10. Convergent Nature of Modern Media
• Convergence – The coming together of different
forms of media on one device.Audience now
expect to do more with devices and media.
• On FOX, the channel that House was aired on,
has a page specifically for the series.This page
has links to other websites which are accessible
through other devices such as Twitter,
Facebook, MySpace and has a selection for
‘Other Devices’. This shows that the channel
knows that people would most likely want to
catch up with the series or simply hear news
about it on other devices and want to be kept up
to date. It tells of the newest things to do with
the series such as the ‘First Look’of the season
finale, a trailer that would not be accessible on
any other website (at the time this page was
shown) and can be accessible though from
other devices. They also have podcasts that talk
about the series and tells us about characters let
alone the story of the series that is easily
accessible as well.

11. Gender represented in the series
• Gender in this series is presented through
Cameron, the only girl on the team arranged on
the team who isn’t Lisa. She is seen as the girl
who got into the team because she is a team, and
House states this at the end of episode 1, or
actually, the pilot episode. He states that her
background in the university she attended for
medicine wasn’t as good as others, so he
could’ve picked anyone else and this makes her
question him why he didn’t just pick someone
who was better at the job than her, in which case,
he talks about her appearance and compares it to
models. This could hint at women being used in
certain thing, merely for their appearances and
treating them differently to the other male
characters and as a submissive gender.
• It’s also shown that women may not always be as
good as men because of Cameron getting into a
school that wasn’t as good as Eric's which is also
stated in the ‘Ethnic’section.
• Though for Lisa, she changes that around as
she’s House’s boss, threatening to fire him at
points because of his risky moves and showing
off her authority. This shows that women can
also have power and can be the ones pulling the
strings in operations. She’s very well respected
and often makes sarcastic remarks alongside
House which can show her as being of a similar
level of status to him, let alone being his boss.

12. Ethnic groups represented in the
series• Ethnic groups are seen in different ways in the
series.As other characters see the manAmerican
black guy, Eric Foreman, as a normal doctor with
capable abilities to perform surgery just like
everyone else at the hospital, House seems to see
him different and acts different round him, often
pointing out his difference in colour. He also
thinks of him as the stereotype as shown in old
urban movies.
• This is mostly seen when House tries to break
into a house of one of his patients and needs to
get in to find evidence, he then turns to Eric and
depends on him to break in, mainly because of his
racial background and even states so.
• Though this may be also because of the criminal
record he has which is told that he broke into a house
only to be caught and end up with said criminal
record. More things are hinted at his race but also, it
can be seen as Eric still being superior to Cameron,
despite his ethnic but because of his gender as he got
into a better school than her for medicine despite all
of his problems.

13. Age represented in the series
• Age is presented in different ways within the series as
it shows an elderly woman being overly cautious about
her health and how long she has left to live yet the
series seems to take the mic out of this and uses it as
an excuse to say that questions like that are very much
boring and typical and can even get annoying so to
spice things up, House says, “10” which confuses the
old lady before he starts counting down, which
obviously shows how little he likes to spend with the
elderly.
• It also depicts children as beings who can’t do
anything without their mother or father and are totally
dependent on them which is shown in the second
episode for the newest ‘case’when he turns out to be
adopted and that is the cause of the problem because
he hasn’t had his shots and was taken away from the
mother at 2 weeks which is younger than a child
should be taken away as he states he still acts like a
child and continues to make such remarks throughout
the episode.
• Then there are the kids who House describes as
brats and seems to joke about them being
‘snivelling’all the time and mothers worrying about
nothing because of it just being a simple cold. For
example, a woman worried over her child who had
a cold because she didn’t want to give the kid the
shots it needed, believing it to be a money scam but
obviously, it is not.

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