FMST 025. Television Studies

In this course, you will develop an understanding for the roles and functions of television at historically specific junctures and through three mediascapes. Screenings and readings will familiarize you with analog and digital TV formats as well as analytical questions concerning narrative forms, broadcast politics, production contexts and emerging technologies, theories of seriality, reception, and medium-specificity. We will compare the U.S. model to other countries’ television contexts, taking into account global and local formats as well as their cultural specificities. You will acquire the necessary vocabulary to critically assess and discuss TV before and amidst our current convergence culture in formal, thematic, and analytical terms. Coursework of this W Course includes weekly blogging, one analytical paper, a clip analysis presentation, and the production of a creative TV-related project.
Prerequisite: FMST 001 desired but not required.
Humanities.
Writing course.
1 credit.
Eligible for GLBL-Core.
Spring 2027. Simon.
Catalog chapter: Film and Media Studies
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/film-media-studies

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