Week 15 Schedule

Monday
Class Activity:
Fan Production/Assessing Fan Production
Assignments:
Trombley – “Visions and Revisions: Fanvids and Fair Use’” (e-reserve)

Wednesday
Class Activity:
Continue discussing fan productions
Discuss Essay Tree progress/problems
Assignments:
Blog post
Jenkins – “Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten” (e-reserve)

Friday
Class Activity:
Discuss fanvids/fanfiction
Begin outlining Essay Three
Assignments:
Deery – “TV.com” (e-reserve)

Week 14 Schedule

Monday
Class Activity:
Television Fan Culture/Researching Fan Culture
Assignments:
Costello and Moore – “Cultural Outlaws” (e-reserve)

Wednesday
Class Activity:
Screening – Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Assignments:
Blog post
Chinn and Williamson – “The Vampire Spike in Text and Fandom” (e-reserve)

Friday
Class Activity:
Critique/Select Sources for Essay Three
Assignments:
Sandvoss – “The Death of the Reader” (e-reserve)

Week 13 Schedule

Remember, the reading for the weekend is Jancovich, “The Mainstream, Distinction, and Cult TV,” which is on e-reserve.

Monday
Class Activity:
Science Fiction
Discuss Essay Two
Assignments:
Sharp – “Starbuck as ‘American Amazon’” (e-reserve)

Wednesday
Class Activity:
Screening – Battlestar Galactica
Assignments:
Blog post
McCutcheon – “Downloading Doppelgangers” (e-reserve)

Friday
Class Activity:
Show Critique
Review Essay Two drafts
Assignments:
Harris – “A Sociology of Television Fandom” (e-reserve)
Essay Two due via email by 11:59 p.m.

 

I’ll have some updated blog grades out to you this weekend so you have a better idea where you stand going into Essay Two.

Stay Tuned – *UPDATED*

We’re forging ahead one week…

What that means is that we won’t be covering cable drama.  It has enough in common with the PTS (really, kind of is the new face of the PTS) that it won’t hurt to gloss over it.  Consider this a bonus – as much as all of you hated Carnivale, I’m fairly sure you would have detested Deadwood.

In terms of reading, that means you will be reading “The Mainstream, Distinction, and Cult TV” by Jancovich this weekend.  You can find it on e-reserve.

Week 11 Schedule

Monday
Class Activity:
Drama: Procedural/Medical
Discuss Essay Two
Assignments:
Tait – “Autoptic Vision and the Necrophiliac Imaginary in CSI” (e-reserve)

Wednesday
Class Activity:
Screening – CSI
Assignments:
Blog post
Lee – “Trauma, Form and the Screen Phenomenon of Law & Order” (e-reserve)

Friday
Class Activity:
Show Critique
Integrating quotes into Essay Two
Assignments:
Jaramillo – “The Family Racket” (listserve)

Week 9 Schedule

Sorry to be so late this week.

Monday
Class Activity:
Watch Dawson’s Creek online
Assignments:
Dickinson – “My Generation” (listserve)

Wednesday
Class Activity:
Discuss Dickinson and Newman
Assignments:
Blog post
Brooker – “Living on Dawson’s Creek” (e-reserve)

Friday
Class Activity:
Discuss Brooker
Discuss Essay Two
Assignments:
None – Decide subject for Essay Two over break

Week 8 Schedule

Is it really Week 8 already?

Monday
Class Activity:
Reality TV: Candid/Documentary
Assignments:
Rymsza – “Reality Television and the Historical Experience” (e-reserve)

Wednesday
Class Activity:
Screening – An American Family (clips)
Assignments:
Blog post
Corner – “Performing the Real” (e-reserve)

Friday
Class Activity:
Show Critique
Finding secondary sources for writing about television
Assignments:
Newman – “From Beats to Arcs” (e-reserve)

Week 7 Schedule

Monday
Class Activity:
Reality TV: Competitive
Assignments:
Mills – “Television and the Politics of Humiliation” (e-reserve)

Wednesday
Class Activity:
Screening – TBA
Assignments:
Blog post
Prose – “Voting Democracy off the Island” (e-reserve)

Friday
Class Activity:
Show Critique
Review Essay One
Assignments:
Kompare – “Extraordinarily Ordinary” (e-reserve)

Week 6 Schedule – Take Two

Given our heretofore unscheduled day off today, I’m going to bump things around a bit this week.  As I am positive all of us have seen enough episodes of The Simpsons to claim some level of expertise, we will skip the screening on Wednesday.

Come to class prepared to synthesize the following readings and come to some conclusion about what genre is and how we can write about it:

Mills – “New Jokes”
Thompson – “Comedy Verite”
Mittell – “A Cultural Approach to Television Genre Theory”

See you then!

Week 6 Schedule

Week 6 (February 7-13)

Monday
Class Activity:
Studying Genre
Animation
Assignments:
McCollum – “Pacing in Children’s Television Programs” (e-reserve)

Wednesday
Class Activity:
Screening – The Simpsons/Arthur
Assignments:
Blog post
Reading TBA (listserve)

Friday
Class Activity:
Show Critique
Applying Critical Issue to Genre
Assignments:
Hall – “Viewers’ Perceptions of Reality Programs” (e-reserve)