Unit name | Close-Up on Television |
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Unit code | DRAM10023 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | C/4 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Professor. Street |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
none |
Co-requisites |
none |
School/department | Department of Film and Television |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit equips students with skills in academic writing, primarily focusing on television programmes but more widely applicable to film and other screen media, bringing together textual analysis with appropriate contextual concerns. Students will encounter a range of television genres and be introduced to some of the critical debates relevant to them. They will work on and research a particular case study and develop skills of writing specific to that programme and the issues that surround it.
The unit aims for students are:
On successful completion of this unit students will be able to:
1. situate television within broader concepts of culture;
2. analyse and critically evaluate television programmes, drawing upon a range of sources appropriate to research;
3. gather, organise and deploy ideas and information in order to formulate arguments cogently, and express them effectively in writing;
4. produce work which is informed by, and contextualised within, relevant theoretical issues and debates;
5. show awareness of the narrative processes, generic forms and modes of representation at work in television and related media, and apply this awareness to the understanding of critical materials
6. formulate appropriate research questions and employ appropriate methods and resources for exploring research questions.
weekly 2-hour seminars + weekly 3-hours screening (with 15 minute introduction - unit tutor will also attend screenings)
1000 word essay (25%) ILO 3, 5, 6
outline/annotated bibliography connected to longer essay (25%) ILO 1-4, 6
2000 word essay (50%) ILO 1-4, 6
Bignell, J. (2012) An Introduction to Television Studies, third edition, London: Routledge
Lury, K. (2005) Interpreting Television, London: Hodder Arnold.
Additional readings will relate to the specific case studies that are chosen.