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FILM 346 Television and Seriality Units: 3.00
This course examines various forms of televisual seriality, from historical and theoretical perspectives. The course shall examine it emergence as the dominant form of the soap opera, to contemporary web television platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Crave.
Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 48 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Explore how television serials have developed a unique form of authorship, establishing the role of "showrunner" within its unique production contexts.
- Understand how serial characters evolve within the constraints of the television medium and the challenges of presenting character change over a long period of time.
- Learn cognitive theories of viewer narrative comprehension to consider how television serials have become more complex in their narrative strategies.
- Analyze how viewer practices have adapted to the digital era with new developments in how people consume narrative television.
- Gain a greater knowledge on how television narratives are expanded and complicated through transmedia extensions, including videogames, novelizations, websites, online video, and alternate reality games.