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21L.015 INTRODUCTION TO MEDIA STUDIES

 

COMMUNITY & COMMUNICATION I: TV IN THE BROADCAST ERA

Tuesday 4 March 1997

David Thorburn

READINGS

• Raymond Williams, Television: Technology and Cultural Form (NY, Schocken Books, 1975), ch. 1-2, pp. 9-43.
• John Fiske and John Hartley, "Bardic Television," in Reading Television (London, Methuen, 1978), pp.85-100
• David Thorburn, "Television Melodrama" in Newcomb, ed., Television: The Critical View (NY: Oxford UP, 1994) 5th ed., pp. 537-62.
• David Thorburn, "Television As An Aesthetic Medium," Critical Studies in Mass Communication 4,2 (June 1987) 161-173.
• David Thorburn, "Is TV Acting a Distinctive Art Form?" New York Times, 14 August 1977, Sec. 3, p. 19.

 

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