Television History & Analysis (Visiting Students) - TFT00027C
- Department: Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media
- Credit value: 10 credits
- Credit level: C
- Academic year of delivery: 2022-23
Related modules
Module will run
| Occurrence | Teaching period |
|---|---|
| A | Autumn Term 2022-23 |
Module aims
The aims of the module are:
- to acquaint students with a broad outline of television history (with a particular focus on British and American contexts)
- to provide a more detailed understanding of moments of significant aesthetic, social, industrial and technological change in the development of television
- to introduce the basic concepts, methods and terminology necessary for the understanding and systematic analysis of television as a distinct medium
Module learning outcomes
By the end of the module students will be expected
- to have a broad familiarity with the history of television from its birth as a technology in the 1920s to its contemporary manifestations as a mass medium over a number of different platforms
- to have a more detailed understanding of the ways in which television is studied as both an industry and a cultural form
- to be familiar with significant concepts and debates within Television Studies as they emerged (and continue to emerge) at key points of change in television history
- to be able to draw upon and apply a range of conceptual resources for the analysis of television
Indicative assessment
| Task | % of module mark |
|---|---|
| Essay/coursework | 100 |
Special assessment rules
None
Additional assessment information
In-class exercises will help to strengthen research skills.
Indicative reassessment
| Task | % of module mark |
|---|---|
| Essay/coursework | 100 |
Module feedback
Students will receive written feedback on all assessments and reassessments.
Indicative reading
Assigned readings will be made available on a week by week basis. The key texts throughout the module will be:
- Jonathan Bignell, An Introduction to Television Studies. Third Edition. London: Routledge, 2012
- Christine Geraghty and Lusted, David The Television Studies Book. London: Arnold, 1999
- Jonathan Gray and Amanda D. Lotz, Television Studies, London: Polity, 2012
- Robert Allen and Annette Hill, The Television Studies Reader, London: Routledge, 2004
- Lez Cooke, British Television Drama: A History, London: BFI, 2003
- Catherine Johnson and Rob Turnock, ITV Cultures ITV Cultures: Independent Television over 50 years, Maidenhead: Open University Press 2005
- Paddy Scannell, Radio, Television and Modern Life, Oxford: Blackwell, 1996
- Toby Miller, Television Studies: The Basics London: Routledge, 2010
- John Caughie, Television Drama: Realism,Modernism and British Culture, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000
- Glen Creeber and John Tulloch (ed) The Television Genre Book, London: BFI, 2008
- Glen Creeber (ed) Tele-Visions: An Introduction to Studying Television, London: BFI, 2006
- John T. Caldwell, Televisuality: Style, Crisis and Authority in American Television, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1995
- Su Holmes and Deborah Jermyn (eds) Understanding Reality Television London: Routledge, 2004
- Graeme Turner and Jinna Tay (eds) Television Studies After TV: Understanding Television in the Post-Broadcast Era London: Routledge, 2009
- James Bennett and Niki Strange (eds) Television as Digital Media, London: Duke University Press, 2011
- Charlotte Brunsdon, Screen Tastes: Soap Opera to Satellite Dishes, London: Routledge, 1997
- Marc Leverette, Brian L. Ott and Cara Louise Buckley (eds) It s Not TV:Watching HBO in the Post-television Era London: Routledge, 2008
- JanetMcCabe and KimAkass (eds) Quality TV: Contemporary American Television and 29 Beyond, London: I.B. Tauris, 2010
- Horace Newcomb (Ed.), Television The Critical View, Sixth Edition, Oxford: OUP, 2000
- Toby Miller Ed., Television Studies, London: BFI, 2002
Other reading will be indicated at appropriate moments during the module.