Popular Television - JJM108

• Anglický název: Popular Television
• Zajišťuje: Katedra mediálních studií (23-KMS)
• Fakulta: Fakulta sociálních věd
• Platnost: od 2015
• Semestr: zimní
• E-Kredity: 6
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: zimní s.:
• Rozsah, examinace: zimní s.:1/1, Zk [HT]
• Počet míst: neurčen / neurčen (10)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: nevyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán; povolen pro zápis po webu; při zápisu přednost, je-li ve stud. plánu
• Garant: Mgr. Iva Baslarová, Ph.D.

Anotace

Poslední úprava: Mgr. Iva Baslarová, Ph.D. (25.09.2014)

This course will familiarize students with basic, yet fundamental, concepts and theories related to popular culture and television. Course session will deal with various TV-related issues and will be placed within the European context and compared with cultural specificities of American society. Further, issues of TV production, product (media contents), representations, stereotypes and audiences (receptions) will be discussed in the global context. Media will serve as an example for us to see in what ways popular culture are reproduced, innovated and, scarcely, dismantled and/or subverted. Social construction of reality will manifest itself in an analysis of TV genres.

Cíl předmětu

Poslední úprava: Mgr. Iva Baslarová, Ph.D. (25.09.2014)

The purpose of this course is to explain television serial narrative as an object of popular use under varying political and social conditions.

Literatura

Poslední úprava: Mgr. Iva Baslarová, Ph.D. (25.09.2014)

Allen, Robert C. 1985. Speaking of Soap Operas. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press.

Ang, Ien. 2003. "Melodramatic Identifications: Televison Fiction and Women's Fantasy." In Brunsdon, Charlotte, D'Acci, Julie, Spigel, Lynn (eds.). Feminist Television Criticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bignell, J .; Lacey, S. 2005. Popular television drama. Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press.

Bren, Paulina. 2010. The Greengrocer and his TV. The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring. Ithaka and London: Cornell University Press.

Brunsdon, Charlotte, D'Acci, Julie, Spigel, Lynn (eds.). Feminist Television Criticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Brunsdon, Charlotte. 2003. The Feminist, the Housewife, and the Soap Opera. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Brunt, R. 1992. Engaging with the Popular: Audiences for Mass Culture and What to Say about Them. In: Cultural Studies. Grossberg, L., Nelson, C., Treichler, P. (eds.). New York: Routledge. Pp. 69-77.

Butler, Jeremy G. 1995. "I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV: Charakters, actors and acting in television soap opera." In Allen, Robert C. (ed.). Tobe continued... Soap operas around the World. London and New York: Routledge. Pp. 145-164.

Chapman, Mary; Hendler, Glenn. 1999. Sentimental Men. Masculinity and the Politics of Affect in American Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, s. 1-19.

Clark, Danae. 1995. Negotiating Hollywood: The Cultural Politics of Actors' Labor. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Crimp, D. 1992. Portraits of People with AIDS. In: Cultural Studies. Grossberg, L., Nelson, C., Treichler, P. (eds.). New York: Routledge. Pp. 69-77.

Corner, J. 2009. Performing the Real: Documentary Diversions. In: Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture. Murray, S., Oullette, L. (eds.). New York and London: New York University Press. Pp. 44-65.

Fiske, J. 2004. Active Audiences. In: Television Culture. New York: Routledge. Pp. 62-84.

Fiske, J. 1992. Cultural Studies and the Culture of Everyday Life. In: Cultural Studies. Grossberg, L., Nelson, C., Treichler, P. (eds.). New York: Routledge. Pp. 154-165.

Hill, A., Calcutt, I. 2007. Vampire Hunters: The Scheduling and Reception of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel in the United Kingdom. In: Undead TV. Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Levine, E., Parks, L. (eds.). Duke University Press: Durham and London. Pp. 56-74.

Kellner, Douglas. 1995. "Cultural Studies, Multiculturalism and Media Culture." In Dines, Gail; Humez Jean M. (eds.). Gender, Race and Class in Media. London: Sage, s. 8.

Livingstone, S. 1998. Making Sense of Television. London: Routledge. Pp. 51-68.

Meehan, Eileen R.; Torre, Paul J. 2011. "Markets in Theory and Markets in Television." In The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications. Malden, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, s. 62-83.

Morley, David. 1986. Family Television: Cultural Power and Domestic Leisure. London: Comedia.

Perkins, T. 1997. Rethinking Stereotypes. In: Media Studies. O'Sullivan, T., Jewkes, Y. (eds.). London: Arnold. Pp. 75-86.

Tulloch, J. 1990. Television drama: agency, audience and myth. London; New York: Routledge. Pp. 29-75.

Metody výuky

Poslední úprava: Mgr. Iva Baslarová, Ph.D. (25.09.2014)

Parts of Czechoslovak and Czech television serials are screened regularly within classes. Audio track of the samples is in Czech and samples are subtitled into English, so that everybody in the class can follow it comfortably.

Požadavky ke zkoušce

Poslední úprava: Mgr. Iva Baslarová, Ph.D. (25.09.2014)

1) Participation - i.e. attendance in class and contributions to discussions

2) Final written exam - multiple choice questions

3) Final written assignment (as specified in the below)

Definition of final written assignment (FWA):
FWA is supposed to have two parts:
-outline of an ideologically effective television serial (500-550 words)
-scholarly discussion of the outline, explanation and defense of applied narrative techniques, MUST contain references to literature from Reading list section (at least one title of your choice) (500-550 words)

Instructions for OUTLINE part:
Set up (in virtual) any authoritarian regime up to your taste and liking. Specify the ideology of the regime - values, goals and directives which the regime wants to legitimate as a universal truth. Design the television serial narative which will help to sustain the regime and promote its ideology. Design of the narrative must specify these narrative elements: number of episodes, screening times, characters and their main profile, plot and its main logic, setting in time and space. Make the story ideological through proposed narrative technique - it means particular arrangement of characters and/or plot and/or setting.

Instructions for DEFENSE part:
Open the syllabus and go to Reading list section - or just go directly to the library :)
Browse through books and select the one which you really like or the one that covers your narrative technique
Specify and explain at least one theoretical concept (from the book) that can be associated with your synopsis - this part MUST include references to the book/books and quotations from the book/books
Explain why your narrative technique can be deemed effective and disseminating ideological message.

Sylabus

Poslední úprava: Mgr. Iva Baslarová, Ph.D. (25.09.2014)

Popular Television

 

Lecturer: Mgr. Iva Baslarová, Ph.D.

E-mail: [e-mail]

(Cell phone): 777 60 51 38

Class (day, time): Wednesday 15.30 - 16.10

Where: Faculty of Social Science, Holar, classroom H112

 

 

Course description

 

This course will familiarize students with basic, yet fundamental, concepts and theories related to popular culture and television. Course session will deal with various TV-related issues and will be placed within the European context and compared with cultural specificities of American society. Further, issues of TV production, product (media contents), representations, stereotypes and audiences (receptions) will be discussed in the global context. Media will serve as an example for us to see in what ways popular culture are reproduced, innovated and, scarcely, dismantled and/or subverted. Social construction of reality will manifest itself in an analysis of TV genres.

 

 

Course evaluation

 

1) Active Participation in class (participation in discussions) 20 %

3) Final Test 80 %

 

The grading scale:

 

100 - 90 %	A (1)
89 - 80 %	B (2)
79 - 60 %	C (3)
59 - 0 %	F (4)

 

 

Class protocol

Students are required to be involved in class activities. They are expected to show their preparation by active participating in the class activities, by asking relevant questions, being critical and analytical with the contents presented in class as well as by sharing their ideas and opinions.

It is expected that students arrive to class on time.

Mobile phones must be put on silence mode during classes. If it is necessary for a student to use any other personal appliances, it must not disturb the working atmosphere in a classroom.

During the Study Abroad course any plagiarism is prohibited (look what is defined as plagiarism at ISA Charles university official blog - www.blogspot.com)

During the Study Abroad course any ethnic, racial or sexual discrimination is considered immoral and is prohibited.

 

Contents

Week 1: TV Triangle: Production, Product and Audience

 

Mandatory readings:

 

• Livingstone, S. 1998. Making Sense of Television. London: Routledge. Pp. 1-25.

• Kellner, Douglas. 1995. "Cultural Studies, Multiculturalism and Media Culture." In Dines, Gail; Humez Jean M. (eds.). Gender, Race and Class in Media. London: Sage, s. 8.

 

Week 2: TV Production and Popular Culture

 

Mandatory readings:

• Meehan, Eileen R.; Torre, Paul J. 2011. "Markets in Theory and Markets in Television." In The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications. Malden, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, s. 62-83.

 

Week 3: Media Contents - Reproducing of Popular Culture

 

Mandatory readings:

 

• Tulloch, J. 1990. Television drama: agency, audience and myth. London; New York: Routledge. Pp. 29-75.

 

 

Week 4: Audiences

 

Mandatory readings:

 

• Fiske, J. 2004. Active Audiences. In: Television Culture. New York: Routledge. Pp. 62-84.

 

• Brunt, R. 1992. Engaging with the Popular: Audiences for Mass Culture and What to Say about Them. In: Cultural Studies. Grossberg, L., Nelson, C., Treichler, P. (eds.). New York: Routledge. Pp. 69-77.

 

 

Week 5: What are you going to watch? TV Genres

 

Mandatory readings:

• Bignell, J .; Lacey, S. 2005. Popular television drama. Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press.

• Morley, David. 1986. Family Television: Cultural Power and Domestic Leisure. London: Comedia.

 

Week 6: The Case of Soap Opera

 

Mandatory readings:

• Allen, Robert C. 1985. Speaking of Soap Operas. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press.

• Brunsdon, Charlotte. 2003. The Feminist, the Housewife, and the Soap Opera. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

 

Week 7: Real/ity TV

 

Mandatory readings:

• Fiske, J. 1992. Cultural Studies and the Culture of Everyday Life. In: Cultural Studies. Grossberg, L., Nelson, C., Treichler, P. (eds.). New York: Routledge. Pp. 154-165.

• Corner, J. 2009. Performing the Real: Documentary Diversions. In: Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture. Murray, S., Oullette, L. (eds.). New York and London: New York University Press. Pp. 44-65.

 

 

Week 8: Czech/oslovak TV and its Specifics

 

Mandatory readings:

• Bren, Paulina. 2010. The Greengrocer and his TV. The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring. Ithaka and London: Cornell University Press.

• Brunt, R. 1992. Engaging with the Popular: Audiences for Mass Culture and What to Say about Them. In: Cultural Studies. Grossberg, L., Nelson, C., Treichler, P. (eds.). New York: Routledge. Pp. 69-77.

 

 

Week 9: "Undead TV": Popularity of Fantasy Genre

 

Mandatory readings:

• Hill, A., Calcutt, I. 2007. Vampire Hunters: The Scheduling and Reception of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel in the United Kingdom. In: Undead TV. Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Levine, E., Parks, L. (eds.). Duke University Press: Durham and London. Pp. 56-74.

 

Week 10: "Girls Talk": Genre and Gender

 

Mandatory readings:

• Ang, Ien. 2003. "Melodramatic Identifications: Televison Fiction and Women's Fantasy." In Brunsdon, Charlotte, D'Acci, Julie, Spigel, Lynn (eds.). Feminist Television Criticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Chapman, Mary; Hendler, Glenn. 1999. Sentimental Men. Masculinity and the Politics of Affect in American Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, s. 1-19.

 

Week 11: Popular Icons, Stars and Celebrities

 

Mandatory readings:

• Clark, Danae. 1995. Negotiating Hollywood: The Cultural Politics of Actors’ Labor. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

• Butler, Jeremy G. 1995. "I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV: Charakters, actors and acting in television soap opera." In Allen, Robert C. (ed.). Tobe continued... Soap operas around the World. London and New York: Routledge. Pp. 145-164.

 

Week 12: Representation of "The Others"

 

Mandatory readings:

• Perkins, T. 1997. Rethinking Stereotypes. In: Media Studies. O'Sullivan, T., Jewkes, Y. (eds.). London: Arnold. Pp. 75-86.

• Crimp, D. 1992. Portraits of People with AIDS. In: Cultural Studies. Grossberg, L., Nelson, C., Treichler, P. (eds.). New York: Routledge. Pp. 69-77.

Vstupní požadavky

Poslední úprava: Mgr. Iva Baslarová, Ph.D. (25.09.2014)

No special prerequisities.