Communication 791E - S: Television Studies: Text, C

This seminar is designed to introduce graduate students to contemporary issues, debates, and methodologies in global Television Studies. It will briefly rehearse the history of the study of television, particularly as it emerges from film studies and cultural studies traditions, focusing on debates about the object of study and approaches to that object. It will proceed with a focus on global difference and technological change. The course will therefore examine, in detail, current research that approaches the televisual text, television as social practice, and the changing economics and institutions of television around the world.

Open to Graduate students only.