Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
• Understand the concept, structure, function, and distinctive features of television narrative.
• Demonstrate an overview of the history and major milestones of television fiction.
• Recognize the defining characteristics of the main television genres.
• Analyze, on multiple levels, some of the most significant television series.
Course Content (Syllabus)
The course focuses on the literary-historical investigation of genres, their history, and related theoretical approaches, as well as on the depiction of intertextual and intermedial relationships using European and modern greek examples
Keywords
Television, TV narrative, TV genres, TV series
Additional bibliography for study
Bignell, Jonathan, and Faye Woods. An introduction to television studies. Routledge, 2022.
Creeber, Glen, ed. The television genre book. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.
Edgerton, Gary R., and Brian Geoffrey Rose, eds. Thinking outside the box: A contemporary television genre reader. University Press of Kentucky, 2005.
Fiske, John. Television culture. Routledge, 2010.
Fiske, John, and John Hartley. Reading television. Routledge, 2004.
Nochimson, Martha P. Television rewired: The rise of the auteur series. University of Texas Press, 2019.
Vaage, Margrethe Bruun. The antihero in American television. Routledge, 2015.
Wasko, Janet, and Eileen R. Meehan, eds. A companion to television. Wiley Blackwell, 2020.