50135 Television and Popular Culture

8cp

Requisite(s): 50108 Contemporary Cultures OR 50229 Contemporary Cultures

These requisites may not apply to students in certain courses. See access conditions.

Disciplinary Strand – Cultural Studies – 200 level

This cultural studies subject examines television as a cultural formation involving issues of personal and social history and ethnography, class, ethnicity, affect, entertainment, and spectatorship, and covers a broad range of contemporary debates in both Television Studies and Cultural Studies. Television genres examined include reality TV, soap opera, sitcoms, music television, news and current events, serials, cult TV, 'postdocumentary' TV, talkshows and 'junk TV'. Apart from Anglophone TV in Australia, the USA, and the UK, aspects of television output and programming in other countries is explored in relation to issues of globalisation, 'copycat TV' and the 'indigenisation' of global TV genres such as talk shows, soap opera and game shows. SBS and the policies, content and formal issues it generates such as the viability of multicultural, community and global TV is also examined.

For detailed information, see the full subject description at:
http://www.hss.uts.edu.au/subject_descriptions/50135.pdf

Typical availability

Autumn semester, City campus

Fee information

2007 contribution for post-2004 Commonwealth-supported students: $832.67
2007 amount for undergraduate domestic fee-paying students: $3,000.00
Subject EFTSL: 0.167
Note: The above fees are applicable in 2007 for Commonwealth-supported students who commenced after 2004 and domestic fee-paying undergraduate students only. Pre-2005 Commonwealth-supported students should consult the Student contribution charges for Commonwealth supported students webpage.
Not all students are eligible for Commonwealth supported places, and not all subjects are available to Commonwealth supported students. Domestic fee-paying students and international students should refer to the Fees webpage.

Access conditions

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