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106-012 Television Cultures | |
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Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Brett Farmer |
Prerequisites | Fifty points of first-year arts including at least 25 points from a specified list of subject areas, see Prerequisites. |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 1.5-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial per week |
Subject Description | This subject encourages students to think seriously about television and its place in contemporary culture through an introduction to the theoretical traditions and methodologies of television studies. The subject promotes and interdisciplinary reading of television as a dynamic 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; and TV and social reproduction. |
Assessment | A 1500 word essay 40% (due mid-semester), a 2000 word essay 50% (due at the end of semester), and a group presentation of 10-15 minutes equivalent to 500 words 10% (multi-media or written) to be made in class during the semester. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available. |
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