ENGH 371: Television Studies

ENGH 371-DL2: Television Studies - Distance Learning Section
(Spring 2018)

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Section Information for Spring 2018

ENGH 371 - DL2: Television Studies - Distance Learning Section

English 371 DL2 Television Studies | Cynthia Fuchs cfuchs@gmu.edu | This course examines television today, its changing forms, venues, and appeals. We consider the ways TV addresses and creates audiences, how TV intersects with social media, and how it shapes ordinary and extraordinary experiences. What is peak TV? What are the relationships among art, journalism, and genre on TV? How do we watch TV with Twitter and Instagram? How might #MeToo reshape TV, for creators and consumers? And how do mini-series, Amazon and Netflix, and YouTube change TV? 

The course looks at how TV and social media work together to convey and counter apparent truths, shape identities and communities, organize celebrity and fandom, politics and commercial culture. Shows may include Stranger Things and blackish, Jessica Jones and Black Mirror, Gotham and Supergirl, Queen Sugar and Mr. Robot, The Chi and The Alienist, Bojack Horseman and Black Lightning, reality TV, Animal Planet, and cable news, the Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics. Fulfills Core Requirement for Arts.

ENGH 371:DL2 (Television Studies) is a distance learning section.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Learn to identify and analyze formal elements of television. Learn how to situate and evaluate television in their cultural and historical contexts, interpret specific texts, and understand the relationships among broadcasting and networks, citizenship, audiences, and the public sphere. Limited to three attempts.
Mason Core: Arts
Recommended Prerequisite: Satisfaction of University requirements in 100-level English and in Mason Core literature.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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