CMS 4340 – TV Criticism
Email: michaelbass@clayton.edu
Office: Carnes Hall for Music, Room 208
Visitation Hours: MW 1-2, TR 2:30-4:30, or by appointment

Fall 2021 Full Course Syllabus

Course Readings (Password Protected)

Resources
Clayton State Academic Calendars
Clayton State Film, Communication, and Performing Arts Department
Clayton State Communications and Media Studies Department
Clayton State Film Production Department
Film Terms Glossary
(Some) Georgia Film Festivals!
SWANK – CSU Library’s Streaming Service!
Kanopy – CSU Library’s Other Streaming Service!
Hoopla – Atlanta-Fulton Public Library’s Streaming Service!
Atlanta Fulton County Public Library!
Criterion Channel
Shudder
Adblock Plus
Videodrome Atlanta
Midtown Art Cinema Atlanta
Plaza Theatre Atlanta
Film Terms Glossary
Box Office Mojo
Film-Related Podcasts
How to Email a Professor
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Gauntlett, “Essay-Writing: The Essential Guide”
More Paper Tips
What is a Scholarly Article?
How to Read Scholarly Articles
How to Find Scholarly Articles
Citation Styles Help

Lecture Notes
Academic Writing…
Bordwell & Thompson – Film Art Ch. 4: Mise-en-Scene
Bordwell & Thompson – Film Art Ch. 5: Cinematography
Bordwell & Thompson – FIlm Art Ch. 6: Editing
Bordwell & Thompson – Film Art Ch. 7: Sound
Caldwell – Excessive Style
Creeber – Introduction: What is Genre?
Dansky – On the Persistence of Camp
Doughty & Etherington-Wright – Postmodernism
Duffet & Mittell – Fandom
Feuer – Genre Study and Television
Fiske – Intertextuality
Gitlin – Inside Prime Time
Gray – The Politics of Representation in Network Television
Hall – Encoding/Decoding
Kalinak – “Disturbing the Guests with This Racket”: Music and Twin Peaks
Lavery – Lost and Long-Term Narrative
Mellencamp – Situation Comedy, Feminism, and Freud
Miller – Televisual Sublime
Mittell – Narrative Complexity
Mittell – Why Television?
Morley – Television Audience Research
Nelson – Invisible No Longer: Images of Disability in the Media
Newcomb – Reflections on TV
Newcomb & Hirsch and Gitlin
Newman – From Beats to Arcs
Reeves, et al. – Postmodernism and Television: Speaking of Twin Peaks
Schatz – Desilu, I Love Lucy, and the Rise of Network TV
Seiter – Semiotics, Structuralism, and Television
Waggoner – Bury Your Gays and Social Media Fan Response

The Bass Clan!