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Lecturer(s)
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Rufer Bílá Anna, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Primary literature, the field of tv studies 2. Approaches to tv analysis - basic types of tv research and its methods 3. Historical development of tv as a media (network/postnetwork; era of lack/availability/multiplicity ; TV I.-III.) 4. Essential terms in tv studies 5. Industrial practices and strategies - branding (channel branding, branding service), television programming strategy flow, multiplatforming 6. Serial Tv forms II. 7. Serial Tv forms II. 8. Narratuve complexity in tv (J.Mittel) 9. Television narrative - character/star/actor/author/celebrity 10. Television style I. 11. Television style II.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Projection (static, dynamic)
- Homework for Teaching
- 50 hours per semester
- Preparation for the Exam
- 25 hours per semester
- Attendace
- 25 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the lecture is to present basic concepts, terms and ideas of television studies. We will generally debate historical changes of television, types and taxonomies of television programs, seriality, aspects of television production, distribution, programming and audienceship, aw well as television narration and style. We will focus on the area of television document, reality TV and factual forms.
Students are able to name basic analytical approaches from the field of TV studies, to define the concepts of seriality and their alternatives based on the innovative tendencies of contemporary television, to define technological and institutional determinants of historical changes in the television medium. Students are able to analyze programming, marketing and branding strategy of television as an institution. They are able to categorize tv programs, evaluate their structuring and characterize the mechanisms involved in the narrative.
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Prerequisites
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There are no prerequisites.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written exam, Student performance, Analysis of Creative works (Music, Pictorial,Literary)
Basic knowledge of approaches of tv criticism, the ability to apply selected critical procedures on a given task, knowledge of currently broadcasted TV programs. To get credit students will realize presentation "news" from the tv area studies within the lecture series. Preparation for each lesson - recommended chapters from study text. The information explained in the text will be further discussed on lecture. Mandatory readings (https://www.evernote.com/pub/panzerwiese/tvstudies1): Korda, J. (2013) Úvod do televizních studií 1. Korda, J. (2013) Úvod do televizních studií 2: Faktuální televize a její žánry.
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Recommended literature
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ALLEN, Robert C. (1992). Chanels of Discourse Reassembled. London.
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BUTLER, Jeremy. (2006). Television: Critical Methods and Applications. Mahweh.
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CREEBER, Glen. (2013). Small Screen Aesthetics. London.
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CREEBER, Glen. (2006). Tele-visions: An Introduction to Television Studies. London.
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ELLIS, John. (1982). Visible Fictions: Cinema, Television. Video. London.
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FISKE, John. (1987). Television Culture. London and New York.
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HAMMOND, M. - MAZDON, L. (2005). The Contemporary Television Series. Edinburgh.
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KOKEŠ, Radomír D. (2016). Světy na pokračování: rozbor možností seriálového vyprávění. Praha.
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KORDA, Jakub. (2013). Úvod do studia televize 1. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého.
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MITTEL, Jason. (2006). Narrative Complexity in Contemporary American Television. , The Velvet Light Trap, 58, s. 29-40.
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ORLEBAR, Jeremy. (2012). Kniha o televizi. Praha.
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WILLIAMS, Raymond. (2003). Television: Technology and Cultural Form. London and New York.
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