Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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The lecture focuses on selected aspects of tv media, mainly on non - narrative/factual television. 1. Primary literature for the area of factual television, television style and other selected topics tv studies. 2. TV and reality - the relationship of terms reality, media, media representation, television, status figures in tv factual forms. 3. Documentary/reality TV 4. Transformation process in reality tv and basic elements of reality forms 5. Modes of representation of reality (Nichols 2010, Butler 2007). 6. Tv factual genres (news, reality TV, talk show, sport, TV quiz ad.). 7. Tv style (mise en sc?ne, multicamera style of shooting and editing, the specifics of sound).
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Projection (static, dynamic)
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Learning outcomes
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The lecture is focused on selected aspects of television, especially non-narrative/factual television. Different communicational modes of non-narrative tv and conventions of factual genres will be discussed.
Students will be able to analyse non-narrative television programs, to use the basic terminology and definine television genres in general. Students are able to describe principles and specifics of components in television style. They can analyze construction of specific programs, evaluate and compare the degree of conventionality and innovation of television programs in the field of factual television. Students are able to evaluate the dramaturgy of these programs and wider units.
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Prerequisites
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It is recommended to complete the course KDU/UST1 Introduction to television studies.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Oral exam, Written exam
The basic knowledge of lectures, the ability to apply selected critical procedures on a given task (non-narrative tv), the knowledge of mandatory readings, presentation of actuality during semester.
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Recommended literature
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ALLEN, R.C. Channels of Discourse - Reassembled. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press 1992.
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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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CORNER, J. Critical Ideas in Television Studies. London: Oxford University Press 1999.
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CORNER, John. (1999). Critical Ideas in Television Studies. Oxford and New York.
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CORNER, John. (1995). Television Form and Public Address. New York: Neal Schuman Publishers.
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CREEBER, Glen. (2005). The Televison Genre Book. London.
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FISKE, J., HARTLEY J. Reading Television.
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FISKE, John. (1987). Television Culture. London and New York.
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KORDA, Jakub. (2013). Úvod do studia televize 2. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého.
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NEWCOMB, H. Television ? The Critical View. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press 2000.
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STAIGER, J. Media Reception Studies. New York and London: New York University Press 2005.
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WILLIAMS, R. Television. London and New York: Routletge 2003.
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