Critical TV Theory & Analysis

Catalog description

This course seeks to master methods of analysis and theory commonly utilized in Television Studies: historic and industrial, auteurism and genre, semiotics and psychoanalysis, postmodernism, feminist, critical race, discourse, and audience reception. In students' aspirations to become professionals in the field of television, understanding how TV operates culturally and socially in a sophisticated manner will ultimately make them better creative artists, producers, managers, screenwriters, etc.