In summary, a good essay has been carefully planned, and it has a logical structure. It includes close textual analysis (and where relevant, analysis of surrounding sources), it has an argument, and it expresses this argument in a clear and articulate manner. It is critically informed (i.e. it includes an awareness of relevant reading in the field), and it uses this knowledge to develop its own perspective.
Please answer ONE of the following questions:
1. To what extent are debates about medium specificity useful in the analysis of television? You should make reference to 1-2 case studies in your response.
2. Why have feminists been interested in soap opera? To what extent are they still a ‘woman’s’ genre?
3. What can feminist TV criticism reveal about EITHER crime drama OR children’s television OR reality TV? You should make reference to 1-2 detailed case study programmes (from the same genre) in your response.
4. To what extent can television be seen as articulating discourses of ‘postfeminism’, and what are the implications of this? Answer with reference to 1-2 programme case studies.
5. ‘Television genres represent clearly defined, fixed categories’. Discuss with reference to 1-2 programme case studies of your own choice.
6. Using a discursive approach to genre (Mittell, 2004), explore the limitations of a purely textual approach to genre using 1-2 programme case studies of your own choice.
7. Debates about the audience in Television Studies have historically centered on ‘the extent to which audiences are free to interpret’ television programmes (Williams, 2003: 191). Discuss with regard to both textual and empirical approaches to the TV audience.
8. How is realism/ or a claim to the real in television an aesthetic and ideological construction? Discuss with regard to 1-2 programme case studies of your choice.
9. To what extent does television function as a form of ‘public sphere’? You should make reference to 1-2 genres or case studies in your answer.
10. ‘We are able to conclude that something is of high quality based…. on our recognition of the particular aesthetic features it contains’ (Cardwell, 2007:
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