TCOM 482 - Documentary Genres

Institution:

Ohio University-Main Campus

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Description:

Prereq: JR OR SR. Explores the various genres of documentary video and film with a particular emphasis on television documentary and recent video works. Deals with such topics as historical development, factuality and truthfulness, objectivity, and ethics. Assignments and discussion are based on an extensive schedule of screenings. This course provides an examination of the evolution of television genres. Its intent is to provide students with an aesthetic, historic, and critical underpinning which informs the production of new genre formations even as the historic programmatic flow has become increasingly nichedriven. As such, TV genres triangulates media studies with political economy of television and audience and textual analysis.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.ohio.edu

Phone Number:

(740) 593-1000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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