Television Theory and Analysis
Code: 103048 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2501928 Audiovisual Communication | OT | 3 | 0 |
Contact
- Name:
- Nuria Garcia Muñoz
- Email:
- Nuria.Garcia@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- catalan (cat)
- Some groups entirely in English:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Catalan:
- Yes
- Some groups entirely in Spanish:
- No
Prerequisites
To attend this course, a good reading comprehension of English.
Objectives and Contextualisation
This course is included in the subject of the degree History and Esthetics of Audio-visual Communication. This subject is formed by the following subjects of 6 ETCS credits each:
• History of Cinema
• History of Radio and Television
• Theory and Analysis of Film
• Theory and Analysis of Radio
• Theory and Analysis of Rhotography
• Visual studies
• Theory and History of Interactive Communication
As defined in the syllabus, the course provides basic knowledge about television, especially in the introduction to the structural, technological and aesthetic factors that define television products. In this sense, analysis and interpretation tools are also articulated for television programs, giving students a critical ability to analyze the television discourse.
Competences
- Contextualise audiovisual media and its aesthetics from a historic perspective.
- Demonstrate a critical and self-critical capacity.
- Demonstrate a self-learning and self-demanding capacity to ensure an efficient job.
- Demonstrate ethical awareness as well as empathy with the entourage.
- Develop autonomous learning strategies.
- Develop critical thinking and reasoning and be able to relay ideas effectively in Catalan, Spanish and a third language.
- Differentiate the discipline’s main theories, fields, conceptual developments, as well as their value for professional practice.
- Disseminate the area’s knowledge and innovations.
- Manage time effectively.
- Research, select and arrange in hierarchical order any kind of source and useful document to develop communication products.
- Rigorously apply scientific thinking.
Learning Outcomes
- Apply theoretical principles to the analysis of audiovisual processes.
- Demonstrate a critical and self-critical capacity.
- Demonstrate a self-learning and self-demanding capacity to ensure an efficient job.
- Demonstrate ethical awareness as well as empathy with the entourage.
- Develop autonomous learning strategies.
- Develop critical thinking and reasoning and be able to relay ideas effectively in Catalan, Spanish and a third language.
- Disseminate the area’s knowledge and innovations.
- Identify interactions between history, aesthetics and audiovisual communication.
- Identify phenomena and consider theoretical problems regarding audiovisual communication.
- Manage time effectively.
- Research, select and arrange in hierarchical order any kind of source and useful document to develop communication products.
- Rigorously apply scientific thinking.
Content
1.-Context of Contemporary Television
Brief overview to contextualize the main features (thecnologicals, regulatory, culturals and socials) that define and determine the television industry today.
2.-International Television Trends
Critical analysis of the international television programming trends at the present time, the phenomenon of the global format trade and the social function of television in the contemporary society.
3.-The role of new television platforms in the digital scene. Television and Internet.
To determine the new television signal distribution platforms and its implication regarding the evolution of TV as a medium. The irruption of Social TV.
4.-Approach to Television Studies theoretical framework in the digital scenario
Introduction to this academic discipline and the evolution of its studies in the digital age, specially in order to analayse the new role of the viewer/user in the social netwoking age.
5.Analysing Television: Sources, Tools and Analytical Models
Description of the main research methods and tecniques for analysing television. Proposal, development and implementation of an owen model.
The calendar detailed with the content of the different sessions will be presented on the day of presentation of the subject. It will be uploaded to the Virtual Campus, where students will also be able to access the detailed description and necessary for the proper follow-up of the subject.
Methodology
The acquisition of knowledge and skills by students will be carried out through different methodological procedures that include master classes in the classroom, analysis exercises, debate and reflection from viewings and reading material in the spaces of the classroom and seminars, and tutorials.
The proposed teaching methodology and evaluation activities may undergo some modifications depending on the health authorities' attendance restrictions.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| SEMINARS | 15 | 0.6 | 12, 1, 11, 4, 2, 6, 10, 9 |
| THEORETICAL CLASSES | 37.5 | 1.5 | 12, 1, 6, 9, 8 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| TUTORIALS | 7.5 | 0.3 | 12, 1, 11, 2, 6, 9 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| AUTONOMOUS WORK | 82.5 | 3.3 | 12, 1, 11, 3, 4, 5, 2, 6, 10, 9 |
Assessment
The evaluation consists of three different parts:
Theoretical exam (30%)
Final project (group activity) (50%)
Seminars and Participation in seminars (20%)
The three parts of the evaluation must be passed independently to make the average.
Students who have a minimum grade of 3 and less than 5 will be able to submit to the tests of recovery of the theoretical exam and the final project.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FINAL PROJECT | 50% | 4 | 0.16 | 12, 1, 11, 3, 4, 5, 2, 6, 7, 10, 9 |
| SEMINARS | 20% | 1 | 0.04 | 12, 2, 6 |
| THEORETICAL EXAM | 30% | 2.5 | 0.1 | 12, 1, 4, 6, 9, 8 |
Bibliography
Elementary Bibliography
Beck, Daniel; Hellmueller, Lea; Aeschbacher, Nina (2012). "Factual Entertainment and Reality TV". In Communication Research Trends, vol. 31 (2), 4-27.
Bignelli, Jonathan (2004). An Introduction to Television Studies. London: Routledge.
Bordieu, Pierre (1997). Sobre la televisión. Barcelona: Anagrama.
Carpentier, Nico (2012). “The concept of participation. If they have access and interact, do they really participate?”. In Revista Fronteiras. Estudios midiáticos, 14(2), pp. 164-177.
Casetti, Francesco; Di Chio, Frederico (1999). Análisis de la televisión: instrumentos, métodos y prácticas de investigación. Barcelona: Paidós.
Esser, Andrea (2012). "The format business: Franchising television content". In International Journal of Digital Television, vol. 4 (2), 141-158.
Gray, Jonathan; Lotz, Amanda (2012). Television Studies. Cambridge/Malden: Polity Press.
Grainge, Paul (ed.). Ephemral Media. Transitory Screen Culture from Television to YouTube. London: Palgrave Macmillan, British Film Institute.
Jenkins, Henry (2006). Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. New York, London: New York University Press.
Lotz, Amanda (2009). Beyond prime time: Television programming in the post-network era. New York: Routledge.
Prado, Emili; Delgado, Matilde; García-Muñoz, Núria; Monclús, Belén; Navarro, Celina (2020). “General-television programming in Europe (UE5): Public versus commercial channels”. El profesional de la información, v.29, n. 2, e290204. https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2020.mar.04
Spigel,Lynn; Olsson, Jan (eds.) (2004). Television afterTV. Essays on a medium in transition. Durham/London: Duke University Press.
Tay, Jinna;Turner, Graeme (2009). Television Studies after TV: Understanding Television in the Post-broadcast Era. London, New York: Routledge.
Vande Berg, Lea; Wenner, Lawrence; Gronbeck, Bruce (1998). Critical approaches to television. Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.
van Dijck, José (2009). “Users like you? Theorizing agency in user-generated content”. In Media, Culture & Society, 31(1), 41-58.
Throughout the classes, complementary bibliography will be provided based on each syllabus.