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Televisual Culture in the United States

ANG-V1; ANG-V1_v1; ANG-I; FWBB
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“An unholy marriage of sociology and art – the shotgun is pointed at art – American television is a perplexing montage.” Thus begins David Marc’s Demographic Vistas: Television in American Culture (1984). Notwithstanding Marc’s patently skeptical view of its artistic merit, television in postwar United States does indeed present a complicated and composite view of a changing society and culture. Even as television has shaped the cultural landscape in the U.S. over the past seven odd decades, it has in turn changed remarkably, for instance, by evolving from broadcast via cable and satellite to the internet. In the process, it has addressed a multiplicity of audiences via a range of forms, genres, styles. In our seminar, we will attempt to explore the diversity of American feature television, by examining the multilayered construction of its appeals to dissimilar audiences on the intersectional bases of social class, gender, race, ethnicity and sexuality.
In this course in American Studies, we will address issues pertaining to historical development of American television and its varied attractions from a multidisciplinary perspective, by combining theoretical and analytical texts from areas of study, such as, social and political theory, cultural studies, textual analysis, and political economy.
This course shares requirements and guidelines with all other American Studies courses taught at IfAA. The “American Studies Tool Kit” in the Stud.IP “Files” section outlines these requirements and guidelines. Please see the “Guidelines for Seminar Papers” for information on the formal requirements for the final paper. The “Abbreviations Key” and “Grading Rubric” are used in the grading and feedback process and will enable you to better judge your own paper even before handing it in.
In order to take and enjoy this class, you should be willing to read, analyze, and discuss theoretical and analytical texts. Please note that this course can only be taken as a Cultural Studies [Kulturwissenschaft] course and is not being offered under Literary Studies. Moreover, this seminar is recommended for fourth and fifth semester students of American Studies, since it builds upon students’ awareness and understanding of the basic tools and concepts of cultural studies.
Given the confinement measures in effect at present, the following guidelines pertain to all seminars in American Studies offered at IfAA and are the result of an internal consensus with respect to teaching. While each lecturer would have individual plans for her or his seminar, we have all agreed to teach digitally, are prepared to do so for the whole semester and to adapt our teaching and grading to the changed circumstances.
Accordingly, we will also conduct our seminar digitally/online from Monday, 20.04.2020. These changes mean that we would need to be innovative and diligent in terms of how we interact and collaborate. Put simply, this seminar will be very labor-intensive both for you and me and would entail a great deal of reading and writing.
All seminars in American Studies will also work with different Prüfungsformate. This means that grading can, but does not have to be, based on assignments and performances other than the usual seminar paper handed in at the end of the semester. At the moment, I’m still planning to ask you to work toward writing seminar papers (approx. 4500 words), if you need a grade (for modules ANG-V1 or ANG-I). Further instructions in this regard will be provided later on in the semester.
As part of your assigned work in this seminar, you (i.e., all the course participants) would need to carefully prepare the reading(s) allotted for a session, develop your points of discussion, and if applicable, respond to a few keywords or questions that I would post in a wiki set up for the purpose. If you have queries or doubts, they should also be added to this digital, collaborative tool. The due dates for your contributions will be indicated in individual wikis. Pursuant to your interaction and work on the wikis, we will try and conduct brief video conferences initially on a biweekly basis. If our video conferences work reasonably well, we will supplement them with shorter video conferences in which you could make presentations in small groups.
Taking into account the rapidly changing situation around us, we will revisit and amend the course schedule, our strategies of online interaction as well as the course contents on a periodic basis. Readings will be made available in session folders as PDFs.
Prerequisites for participation: B1 module

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Ort: nicht angegeben
Zeiten: Mo. 12:00 - 14:00 (wöchentlich)
Erster Termin: Montag, 20.04.2020 12:00 - 14:00
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar (Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen)

Studienbereiche

  • Europäische Studien > Bachelor-Studiengang > Nebenfach Kulturwissenschaft / Anglistik
  • Anglistik; Englisch > Kulturwissenschaft > Bachelor
  • Language and Literary Studies
  • Anglistik; Englisch > Literaturwissenschaft > Bachelor