CMN U321 - Television:Text and Context

Institution:

Northeastern University

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Description:

Introduces students to critical television studies. Examines television as a meaning-producing medium by focusing upon its images and representations as they have shifted from the inception of television to the present. Students analyze its uses of image, music, graphics, editing, sound, narrative and nonnarrative structure, and genres. Allows students to use various critical methods in their analysis of television: semiotics, narrative, genre, feminist, reader response, ideological, and cultural studies. Consideration is placed upon changes in the industry and viewing practices as a result of cable, satellite, and Internet technologies.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.northeastern.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 373-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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