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.
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.