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106-012 Television Cultures | |
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Note | Formerly available as 106-207/307. Students who have completed 106-207 or 106-307 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Brett Farmer |
Prerequisites | 50 points of first year arts including at least 25 points from a specified list of subject areas, see Prerequisites. |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | 30 hours of lectures and 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. The subject enables students to understand 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 | Class participation, and written work totalling 4000 words. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available. |
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