The purpose of this blog is for you to discuss key issues and ideas about specific topics .how to contribute to this blog video
We discussed this in the debate that followed the lecture. You highlighted various points both for and against censorship and you can draw on some of these for this blog contribution.
We discussed various notions including some of the history of television drama including early representations, to contemporary portrayals of police. We also noted how programmes such as Cagney and Lacey have redefined the traditional conventions of the police drama genre.
We discussed the notion of habitus in the lecture, particularly in relation to lifestyle and taste. We also related these notions to television – and how television can influence such things as taste and knowledge.
Remember we discussed this in the seminar – so if you made notes on that question, you might find that a good starting point. The link to Casualty is still on Blackboard so you could always watch this again to remind yourself of the style of this programme.
If you remember the lecture discussed some of these key ideas. You can always go to Blackboard and look at the PowerPoint or the notes to help.
We discussed whether there are different factors that may influence why people choose to watch certain programmes. So you could highlight some of these factors as well as drawing on examples in relation to specific programmes.
We discussed whether we could apply the concept of flow to our own viewing of television. You need to highlight some examples in relation to your argument(s) about whether you think flow is still relevant to contemporary television viewing practices.
We discussed this in the seminar and highlighted various things that the animations are able to do. You need to think about a programme like The Simpsons in relation to other similar programmes that are not animations.
We discussed a number of different values that are associated with different types of shows. There are quiz shows that focus more on prizes and other ones that focus more on specific types of knowledge. You need to think about and highlight the kind of educational values that may be associated with these different types of shows.
We discussed various reasons for this in the lecture and the seminar. We also highlighted a number of countries where The Cosby show was very successful – so you need to give your opinion, based on some of the ideas we discussed, as to why The Cosby show might have been so successful.
