Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Humanities and Social Science
Learning Methods
Lecture
Seminar
Module Offerings
5101MEDCUL-SEP-MTP
Aims
1. To examine how narrative forms interrelate with the society in which they are produced and consumed.
2. To consider the historical development and conceptual models which inform the close study of popular narrative texts.
3. To critically examine the nature of popular television institutions, production, texts and reception.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Produce evidenced definitions of a range of theoretical concepts relevant to the study of popular television.
2.
Apply appropriate theoretical concepts to the analysis of the relationship between popular narrative media and the society in which they are produced and consumed.
3.
To offer a detailed and evidenced response to a selected essay question covering a topic area relevant to the study of contemporary popular television.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Popular Television and Television Studies; The Politics of Popular TV; Genre and Popularity; Popular TV Production; Ordinary Television; Television Formatting; Fans, Taste and the Popular; Popular TV and Celebrity; Soap and Social Issues.
Module Overview:
Analysing Entertainment Media is a module that focuses on contemporary popular television, the institutions that produced it, the content it offers and how we consume it according to a range of socio-cultural contexts. You will explore key scholarly work in Television Studies and examine this work in relation to a range of case studies, around issues such as: television and celebrity, television and fandom, the rise of television formats, new forms of documentary, television genre in the age of hybridity, the use of ordinary people on television, the representation of social issues in soaps, and the rise of post-network brands such as Netflix and Amazon Prime.
Analysing Entertainment Media is a module that focuses on contemporary popular television, the institutions that produced it, the content it offers and how we consume it according to a range of socio-cultural contexts. You will explore key scholarly work in Television Studies and examine this work in relation to a range of case studies, around issues such as: television and celebrity, television and fandom, the rise of television formats, new forms of documentary, television genre in the age of hybridity, the use of ordinary people on television, the representation of social issues in soaps, and the rise of post-network brands such as Netflix and Amazon Prime.
Additional Information:Students will apply methods of analysis, contextualisation and research relevant to non-fiction and fictional entertainment media.