Books:
McCabe, Janet and Kim Akass (2007) Quality TV: Contemporary American Television and Beyond, London: I. B. Tauris (chapters: ‘Preface’ (Thompson), ‘Introduction Debating Quality’ (McCabe and Akass), 1 (Caldwell), 3 (Nelson), 11 (Feuer) and 17 (Pearson) (72s)
Butler, Jeremy G (2010) Television Style Routledge New York and London
(Chapters: Introduction, 1 and 5) (119s)
Newman, Michael Z and Elena Levin (2011) Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status Routledge (chapters: 1, 2, 3, 5 and 7) (103s)
Lotz, Amanda D. (2007) The Television Will Be Revolutionized New York and London: New York University Press (chapters: Introduction, 1, 2, 4, 6) (136s)
Alan Sepinwall (2012) The Revolution was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever (chapters: Prologue, Introduction 3, 7, 6, 10, 11, epilogue, (188s)
Compendium:
Caldwell, John Thornton (1995) Televisuality: Style, Crisis and Authority in American
Television New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press s3-21 (18s)
Creeber, Glen (2006) ‘Analysing Television: Issues and Methods in Textual Analysis’ in Tele-visions an Introduction to Studying Television Glen Creeber (ed) bfi Publishing. London 26-43 (17s)
Ellis, John (2006) ‘Defining The Medium: TV Form and Aesthetics’ in Tele-visions an Introduction to Studying Television Glen Creeber (ed) bfi Publishing. London s12-19 (7s)
Ellis, John (2002) Seeing Things: Television in the Age of Uncertainty, London and New York:
I.B. Tarius s111-144 (33s)
Jane Feuer (1984) ‘The MTM Style’ in MTM ‘Quality Television’ Jane Feuer, Paul Kerr and Tise Vahimagi (ed) BFI Publishing London s 32-60 (28s)
McMillian, Alasdair (2008) ‘Heroism, Institutions, and the Police Procedural’ in
Tiffany Potter and C. W. Marshall (ed) The Wire Urban Decay and American
Television. Continiuum. New York and London s 50-63 (13s)
Mills, Brett (2009) The Sitcom Edinburgh Univeristy Press. Edinburgh s1-23 (23s)
Nannicelli, Ted (2009) ’It’s All Connected: Televisual Narrative Complexity’ in
Tiffany Potter and C. W. Marshall (ed) The Wire Urban Decay and American Television. Continiuum. New York and London 190-202 (12s)
Nelson, Robin (1997) TV Drama in Transition Basingstoke: MacMillian s30-49 (19s)
Rustad, Gry and Timotheus Vermeulen (2012) ‘”Did you get pears?”: Temporality
and Temps Mortality in The Wire, Mad Men, & Arrested Development’ in Melissa Ames (ed) Television & Temporality: Exploring Narrative Time in 21st Century s153-164 (11s)
Sconce, Jeffery (2004) ‘What If?: Charting Television’s New Textual Boundaries in
Television After TV: Essays on a Medium in Transition, Lynn Spigel and Jan Olsson (eds) Duke University Press. Durham s 93-112 (19s)
Thompson; Robert J. (1996) Television’s Second Golden Age New York: Continuum, s11-45 (34s)
Online
Mittell, Jason (2006) “Narrative Complexity in Contemporary American Television”
The Velvet Light Trap Number 58, Fall 2006 pp. 29-40 (11s)
http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/the_velvet_light_trap/v058/58.1mittell.html
Mittell, Jason (2012) Complex TV The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling (Chapters: Introduction, Compelxity in Context 19s, Comprehension 22s, Evaluations 14s, Transmedia storytelling 15s)
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/complextelevision/author/jmittell/
Smith, Anthony N (2013) ‘Putting the Premium into Basic
Slow-Burn Narratives and the Loss-Leader Function of AMC’s Original Drama Series’ in Television New Media March 2013 vol. 14 no. 2 150-166 (16s)
http://tvn.sagepub.com/content/14/2/150.full.pdf+html
Brunsdon, Charlotte (1990) ‘Problems with Quality’ in Screen 31 1 Spring (24s)
http://screen.oxfordjournals.org/content/31/1/67.full.pdf
Williams, Linda (2011 ‘Critical Response III Ethnographic Imaginary: The Genesis and Genius of The Wire’ in Critical Inquiry 38 (Autumn 2011) by The University of Chicago (19s)
http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/uploads/pdf/Williams_on_The_Wire.pdf
Morozov, Evgeny (2013) ‘The Curse of “You May Also Like’ Slate, Future Tense (2s)
Leonard, Andrew (2013) ‘How Netflix is turning viewers into puppets’ Salon (3s)
http://www.salon.com/2013/02/01/how_netflix_is_turning_viewers_into_puppets/
Will be made available in Fronter:
Moore, Laurie (2010) ‘In the Life of The Wire’ in The New York Review of Books October 14, 2010 (10s)
Vermeulen, Timotheus and Rustad, Gry C ‘Watching television with Jacques Rancière: US ‘Quality Television’, Mad Men and the ‘late cut’’ Fortcoming Screen Nowember 2013) (17s)
Rustad, Gry ‘Chapter 4 A Bigger Picture of Contemporary Television Drama’ (Dissertation chapter under review) (26s)
Total 1050
There might be given some additional handouts in lectures and seminars.
TV-Programmes:
The Wire: The Complete first season (HBO 2002)
Selected episodes from the lecture screenings
(May be subject to change)