JCM311 Critical Studies in Television

TCF 311 Critical Studies in Television is a discussion-oriented course taught by Jeremy Butler.

Course objectives

The online syllabus is over here (Fall 2009):

http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T311/F09/

Online study guides

Chronological order

• Narrative Structure (Discussion)
• Building Narrative (Discussion)
• Beyond and Beside Narrative (Discussion)
• Mise-en-Scene (Discussion)
• Style and the Camera (Discussion)
• Editing (Discussion)
• Sound (Discussion)
• A History of TV Style (Discussion)
• Music Television (Discussion)
• The Commercial (Discussion)
• Animation (Discussion)
• Television Studies: An Overview (Discussion)
• Semiotics (Discussion)
• Semiotics II (Discussion)
• Genre Study (Discussion)
• Ideological Criticism (Discussion)
• Feminist Criticism (Discussion)
• Feminist Criticism II (Discussion)
• Cultural Studies, Ethnography (Discussion)
• Postmodernism (Discussion)

Texts & resources

Books

• Jeremy G. Butler, Television: Critical Methods and Applications, Third Edition (Mahweh, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007). See the companion Website at TVCrit.com.
• Robert C. Allen, Channels of Discourse, Reassembled, second edition (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992).