Television Fiction

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Classes will be expository and dialogued, including the projection of excerpts from television fiction series and moments of discussion that enable the sustained participation of students. Some classes will have a more practical character, of analysis and study of series.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the semester, the student should be able: (1) to critically discuss the relationship between cinema and television as arts; (2) to understand the different methods of analysis and study instruments of television fiction series, namely those generated through the interaction between film studies and television studies; (3) to analyze in detail these complex works as narrative and aesthetic structures; (4) to develop independent research in the field of television studies, understanding the main characteristics of the different types of series and how to study them in detail.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Television and fiction

2. Cinema and television

3. Types of television fiction series

4. Methods of analysis and instruments of study

5. Aesthetic and narrative seriality

5.1. Units and motifs

5.2. Repetition and variation

5.3. Exception and progression

6. Analysis and study of a series

Head Lecturer(s)

Carla Isabel Ambrósio Garcia

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Participation in classes: 10.0%
Frequency: 40.0%
Research work 15% (short) + 35% (long): 50.0%

Bibliography

BRANCO, S. D. 2015. “Magic and Loss: Style, Progression and the ‘Ending’ of Carnivàle”. In “Carnivàle” and the American Grotesque: Critical Essays on the HBO Series, ed. P. Aloi e H. E. Johnston, 57-72. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.

BRANCO, S. D., ed. 2019. Dossiê “O Visionamento e a Crítica de Séries de Televisão”. Aniki: Revista Portuguesa da Imagem em Movimento 6(1). http://aim.org.pt/ojs/index.php/revista/issue/view/20.

BUTLER, J. G. 2009. Television Style. Londres: Routledge.

DUNLEAVY, T. 2017. Complex Serial Drama and Multiplatform Television. Nova Iorque e Londres: Routledge.

JACOBS, J. e PEACOCK, S., eds. 2013. Television Aesthetics and Style. Nova Iorque: Bloomsbury.

LURY, K. 2005. Interpreting Television. Londres: Hodder Arnold.

MITELL, J. 2015. Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling. Nova Iorque: NYU Press.

NELSON, R. 2007. State of Play: Contemporary “High-End” TV Drama. Manchester: Manchester University Press.