We'll probably have a short class today - just a brief review and allowing time for questions regarding your final papers.

Review For Final Exam

Some "Soundbites" on the Nature of Television

An Edited Version of Newton Minnow's 1961 Speech on the nature of television

Regarding the Final Paper:

I urge you to spend a good deal of time working and reworking your final paper. This is not an intro level class for freshmen. I'm expecting a good deal of polish and evidence of hard work in it. As I stated a bit earlier, you can turn in your paper as late as Friday, Dec. 5th by 5:00 pm - or Thursday - before incurring a one-letter grade penalty. I would prefer you hand it in on Wednesday, the 3rd, but I would also rather that you proofread it very, very carefully before you submit it to me. Be ready to discuss your paper briefly today and have any questions ready.

READING: We'll discuss the Jostein Gripsrud article, beginning pg. 210 in TV/TV and go over premium channel programming on Monday, Dec. 1st. On Wednesday, we will review for the final exam.

Menthol Cigarette Ad from approx. 1960

Some Guidelines and Suggestions for the Structure of Your Final Paper

A Brief Outline of the History of TV News from San Diego State U.

Power Point Presentations:

Premium Channels & HBO

J. Gripsrud's Article on Convergence

Television Advertising - Chap. 12 in Butler

Cartoons - Chap. 11 in Butler

Freudian Terminology as Presented in Class and forming the basis for Psychoanalytic Critique of TV

Auteur Theory PP

Sociological Analysis PP

Top Sitcoms in U.S. History PP

Chapter 8 in Butler on Sound

History of Radio

Early History of Film & TV

History of Film Post WW II

Lighting Aesthetics for Film & TV

Other Documents:

Film and/or Television Journals in our library:

Link to list of E-Journals in radio and telelvision through our library

Velvet Light Trap

Film Comment

A Site for Numerous TV Ads

Xavier University of Cincinnati's Site for "Socially Responsible Television"

The Museum of Broadcast Television's Site for Television Studies

The FCC's Site for a Mostly Technological History of Television

A UK site with Numerous links to Past & Present TV Programs, especially reality shows

APA style Guide & link to the University of Wisconsin at Madison's Writing Center.

A good but brief thumbnail history of television from its beginnings through each decade, year by year, to the present.

A very good site for Semiotics - Daniel Chandler's

A Human Rights Site that tracks Global Media Conglomerates