All students must compose individual reading lists of a minimum of 800 pages, to be submitted to the course administrator for approval.
Compulsory reading:
Corner, John : Critical Ideas in Television Studies, 1997. Oxford: Oxford University Press. . 128p..
Source text reading
One of the source texts below is chosen as a focus for the course paper, and for the reading list. The other source texts may also be used to fill up the reading list.
Caldwell, John Thornton : Televisuality: Style, Crisis, and Authority in American Television., 1995. New Brunswick (N.J.): Rutgers University Press . (parts I, II and Postscript). 272p..
Ellis, John : Seeing Things: Television in the Age of Uncertainty, 2000. London: I.B. Tauris. 178p..
Meyrowitz, Joshua : No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior. , 1986. Oxford: Oxford University Press . (Parts I-III and IV). 218p..
Scannell, Paddy : Radio, Television and Modern Life, 1996. Oxford: Blackwell. 179p. .
Williams, Raymond : Television: Technology and Cultural Form, 1975. New York: Schocken Books. 152p..
In addition, the student should list secondary texts that comment on the source texts, and that are used to prepare the term paper. Total reading, including Corner, a selection of source text reading and supplementary reading should be a minimum of 800 pages.