FILM HISTORY IV

Course Information
TitleΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΚΙΝΗΜΑΤΟΓΡΑΦΟΥ IV / FILM HISTORY IV
Code4ΙΚ2
FacultyFine Arts
SchoolFilm
Cycle / Level1st / Undergraduate
Teaching PeriodSpring
CoordinatorChristina Adamou
CommonYes
StatusActive
Course ID280005939

Programme of Study: UPS of School of Film Studies (2009-2013)

Registered students: 111
OrientationAttendance TypeSemesterYearECTS
CoreCompulsory Course423

Class Information
Academic Year2017 – 2018
Class PeriodSpring
Faculty Instructors
Weekly Hours4
Class ID
600110410
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
Digital Course Content
Language of Instruction
  • Greek (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
The course introduces students to television history and the theoretical approaches of its analysis.
General Competences
  • Apply knowledge in practice
  • Make decisions
  • Work autonomously
  • Work in teams
  • Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
  • Be critical and self-critical
  • Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
The course introduces students to the concept of TV genres, focusing on TV dramas, sitcoms, quality TV, networks, cable and streaming services. It also discusses feminism on television, reality TV, and Greek television.
Educational Material Types
  • Notes
  • Slide presentations
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Course Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures270.9
Reading Assigment301
Project301
Exams30.1
Total903
Student Assessment
Description
Students are evaluated through written essays (90%) and attendance (10%)
Student Assessment methods
  • Written Assignment (Summative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Δάμπασης, Γιώργος. Την εποχή της τηλεόρασης. Αθήνα: Καστανιώτη 2002. Κάρτερ, Γιώργος, Ν. Ελληνική Ραδιοφωνία Τηλεόραση: Ιστορία και Ιστορίες. Αθήνα: Καστανιώτη, 2004. Ρετσίλας, Μάριος και Μαρία Πάντα. Τηλεόραση: Τέχνη και τεχνική. Αθήνα: Έλλην, 1999.
Additional bibliography for study
Bignell, Jonathan. An Introduction to Television Studies. London – New York: Routledge, 2004. Cummins, Walter and George Gordon. Programming Our Lives: Television and American Identity. Westport: Praeger, 2006. Edgerton, Gary R. and Rose, Brian Geoffrey. Thinking Outside the Box: A Contemporary Television Genre Reader. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2005. Netzley, Sara Baker. “Visibility That Demystifies: Gays, Gender, and Sex on Television.” Journal of Homosexuality 57:8 (2010): 968-986. Greene, Richard, George A. Reisch, and Rachel Robison-Greene. Dexter and Philosophy: Mind Over Spatter. Chicago: Open Court, 2011. James Roman. From Daytime to Primetime: The History of American Television programs. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2005. McCabe, Janet & Kim Akass. Quality TV: Contemporary American Television and Beyond. London & New York: I. B. Tauris, 2007. Mittell, Jason. Genre and Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture. New York and London: Routledge, 2004. Peele, Thomas. Queer Popular Culture: Literature, Media, Film and Television. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Savorelli, Antonio. Beyond Sitcom: New Directions in American Television Comedy. Jefferson: McFarland, 2010. Tueth, Michael. Laughter in the Living Room: Television Comedy and the American Home Audience. New York: Peter Lang, 2005. Wisnewski, J. Jeremy. 30 Rock and Philosophy. New Jersey: Wiley, 2010.
Last Update
09-04-2017