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106-012 Television Cultures | |
Note | Formerly available as 106-207/307. Students who have completed 106-207/307 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Brett Farmer |
Prerequisites | Usually 25 points of first year English, see Prerequisites |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 1-hour lecture per week and nine 2-hour tutorials scheduled across the semester |
Subject Description | Television is central to contemporary culture. It saturates our everyday lives and plays a vital role in the construction and circulation of our social realities. Yet, despite this, television remains an under-valued, even denigrated, cultural form. This subject aims to encourage students to think seriously and critically about television and its place in contemporary culture. In particular, it seeks to introduce students to the forms and methodologies of television studies. It looks at television as a dynamic and complex cultural form that is articulated and experienced across a range of social, historical and textual discourses. Topics addressed in the subject include: the cultural invention of TV; TV textuality; TV audiences; TV in local/national/global contexts; TV and social reproduction. |
Assessment | Written work totalling 4000 words. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available. |
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