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It’s Not TV. It’s the Syllabus: The television-studies boom
Ist Teil von
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2017-09
Ort / Verlag
Washington: Chronicle of Higher Education
Erscheinungsjahr
2017
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Nexis Uni
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Television has become our dominant narrative form. TV studies must change to keep up.Earlier this month, scholars from around the world gathered at the University of Hertfordshire in Britain for an academic conference on a topic of great importance to millions of people: Game of Thrones. It was the first-ever scholarly meeting dedicated to the hit HBO show, but it’s hardly the first time the academy has considered it worthy of serious study. At Harvard University this fall, students can take a medieval history course rooted in the show and George R.R. Martin’s books. Another HBO show, The Wire, has been the subject of a class taught by William Julius Wilson on urban inequality. And for years now, there have been academic conferences for shows like The Sopranos and Buffy the Vampire Slayer — and those are just ones I’ve attended.