Schedule
| January 21: | Introduction Benjamin, Adorno & Horkheimer (to be distributed) |
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| January 28: |
Television Analysis Mark Crispin Miller, Boxed In |
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| February 4: | Cultural Studies
and Television John Fiske, Television Culture |
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| February 11: | Formal Development Marshall McLuhan, from Understanding Media (course packet) Raymond Williams, from Television (course packet) |
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| February 18: | Historical Development Lynn Spigel, Make Room for TV Term paper proposal due |
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| February 25: | Making a Television
Culture Cecelia Tichi, Electronic Hearth |
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| March 4: | Fighting Television
Culture Jerry Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television |
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| March 11: | Fighting Television
Culture 2 David Marc, Bonfire of the Humanities |
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| March 18: | No class -- spring break | |
| March 25: | Race and Television Herman Gray, Watching Race |
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| April 1: | Gender and Television Susan Douglas, Where the Girls Are selections from Haralovich & Rabinovitz, eds., Television, History, and American Culture (course packet) Bonnie J. Dow, from Prime-Time Feminism (course packet) |
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| April 8: | Audience Studies selections from Ellen Seiter, ed., Remote Control (course packet) |
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| April 15: | Television and the Historical
Imagination selections from Spigel & Curtin, eds., The Revolution Wasn’t Televised (course packet) George Lipsitz, from Time Passages (course packet) Annotated bibliography entries complete |
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| April 22: | Contemporary Television Anna McCarthy, Ambient Television Term paper draft due to peer review partner |
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| April 29: | Final Presentations Commented term paper draft due to peer review partner |
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| May 6: | Final Presentations Final term paper due |