Παρουσίαση/Προβολή

(MEDIA419) -  Αφροδίτη Νικολαΐδου

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In this course we will explore the debatable notions of “TV Aesthetics” (Cardwell 2006, 2013) and “Quality Television” (Cook & Elsaesser 1994, Geraghty 2003 Cardwell 2007). We will delve into the formal transformations of genres and we will examine their relation to the visual and performing arts while discussing the formation of criteria for evaluation. The relation of television production with cinema, video-art and theatre, experimental television (Mulvey & Sexton 2007), television’s synergies with artists and cultural institutions such as museums, television’s relation to modern art and “everyday modernism” (Spigel 2008) are all issues that concern the historiographic foundation of this course. However the course will proceed beyond these. Our aim is to be able to engage interpretive, evaluative and critical discussion within the field of Television and Production Studies.

More specifically, while studying specific genres and their formal transformations, we will focus on the following issues:

• The notions of Quality Television and TV Genres
• TV paratexts as an interpretative genre
• Reality TV programs, their history, their relation to forms of documentary and the question of quality reality program
• The performative, scenographic and narrative elements of talk shows (Bunn 2001)
• Music videos as a cultural genre of postmodernity and their affinity with avant-garde and video art (Arnold et al 2017).
• Animation and Children’s television aesthetics
• Current affairs programs, documentary journalism and ‘aesthetic journalism’
• Complex Dramas, the Netflix effect and the relation of contemporary television to cinema in the age of media convergence (Mittell 2012, McDonald & Smith-Rowsey 2016)

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Σάββατο 15 Φεβρουαρίου 2020