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2011/2 Provisional Module Catalogue - UNDER CONSTRUCTION & SUBJECT TO CHANGE
 Module Code: SOC2053 Module Title: TELEVISION ENTERTAINMENT
Module Provider: Sociology Short Name: SOC2053
Level: HE2 Module Co-ordinator: SANDVOSS C Dr (Sociology)
Number of credits: 15 Number of ECTS credits: 7.5
 
Module Availability
Semester 1
Assessment Pattern

Unit(s) of Assessment

 
Weighting Towards Module Mark( %)

 

ULearn participation

 

10

 

Two hour unseen examination

 

90

 

Qualifying Condition(s) 

 

A weighted aggregate mark of 40% is required to pass the module.

 
Module Overview
This module explores the medium of television and its impact on social, cultural and political life as well as its interplay with other forms of mediated communication through the study of television entertainment. It introduces students to a variety of approaches to the study of television entertainment through the analysis of institutions, audiences, and genres of television.
Prerequisites/Co-requisites
None
Module Aims
The module aims to explores the organisational context of work in the media and cultural industries and critically examines professional practices in different media professions such as journalism and film/television production. It also aims to assess the challenges to media careers posed by globalisation, media convergence and post-Fordism.
Learning Outcomes

The module learning outcomes are to facilitate and build students’ knowledge and understanding of:

 

·     the interplay between modernity, entertainment and television

 

·         textual and generic traditions of television entertainment

 

·         intertextuality and flow in television entertainment

 

·         the economic material basis of television entertainment

 

·       the technological framing of television production and consumption and

 

·       the political and social significance of television entertainment

 
Module Content

The following topics will be covered:

 

·         the formation of modern entertainment and the rise of broadcast media

 

·         history of television entertainment

 

·         television entertainment and new media

 

·         A selection of genre analysis including some of the following:

 

·                     television sport

 

·                     reality television

 

·                     political entertainment

 

·                     television entertainment and spectacle

 

·                     television comedy

 

·                     television drama and soaps

 

·                     cartoons and animations

 
Methods of Teaching/Learning

22 lecture/workshop hours

 

Weekly reading and ULearn participation
Selected Texts/Journals

Reading

 

Students are required to complement lecture and seminar attendance with substantial weekly reading.

 

 

Gray, J.A. (2008) Television Entertainment, New York , Routledge.

 

Hartley, J. (1999) The Uses of Television, London : Routledge

 

Hartley, J. (2008) Television Truths: Forms of Knowledge in
Popular Culture, Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell.

 

Lotz, A. (2007) The Television will be Revolutionized, New York : NYU Press

 

Mittell, J. (2004) Genre and Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture, New York : Routledge

 

Sandvoss, C. (2003) A Game of Two Halves: Football, Television and Globalization, Comedia, London: Routledge

 

Silverstone, R. (1994) Television and Everyday Life, London, Routledge.

 

Allen, R.C. and Hill, A. (eds.) (2004) The Television Studies Reader, London :Routledge.

 

Creeber, G. (eds.) (2007) Tele-visions: An Introduction to Studying Televisions,Berkley: University of California Press

 

Hilmes, M. and Jacobs, J. (eds.) (2003) The Television History Book, London : BFI Publishing.

 

Jancovich, M. and Lyons, J. (eds.) (2003) Quality Popular Television, London: British Film Institute.

 

L. Spigel and Olsson, J. (eds.) (2004) Television after TV: Essays on a Medium in Transition, Durham : Duke University Press.

 

Miller, T. and Lockett, A. (eds.) (2002) Television Studies, London: British Film Institute and U of California Press

 

Turner, G. and Tay , J. (eds.) (2009) Television Studies After TV: Understanding Television in the Post-Broadcast Era, New York , Routledge.

 

Wasko, J. (ed.) (2005) A Companion to Television, Oxford: Blackwell
Last Updated
April 2011