Research Seminar (584-0-20)

Topic

Narrative Forms of TV

Instructors

Miriam B White

Meeting Info

Annie May Swift Hall 219: Thurs 12:00PM - 2:50PM

Overview of class

This graduate seminar explores a range of ideas about television and narrative form, and how these have changed as the industrial and technological modes of the medium have changed. We will look at assumptions about what a series is, discuss episodic and serial forms of television storytelling, and look at the ways in which new media technologies may inflect the ways in which people understand the medium and what it does. In addition, we will consider key terms and concepts in television (liveness, flow, intimacy, etc.) which have variously been considered key aspects of the medium's ontology, specificity, ideology, and/or textuality. In this context, students will have the opportunity to engage with specific television forms/texts, and the terminologies scholars have used to account for variations, permutations, and developments in television's narrative modes.
All readings will be available through Canvas.

Class Materials (Required)

All readings will be available through Canvas.

Enrollment Requirements

Enrollment Requirements: Reserved for Screen Cultures PhD students or by permission of instructor.