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 | Dr. Pete Falconer |
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 about film and television, with a focus on using a television series, accompanied by appropriate critical and conceptual texts, as a case study. Students learn to examine and employ different critical considerations around television and related screen media, developing skills in writing about them and researching the issues that circulate around them.
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
Lury, K. (2005) Interpreting Television, London: Hodder Arnold.
Corrigan, T. (2007) A Short Guide to Writing About Film, 6th ed., New York: Pearson Longman.
Additional readings will relate to the specific case studies that are chosen.