Television left out on the prairie. (Image courtesy of autowitch.)
Instructor(s)
Dr. Joshua Green
MIT Course Number
21L.715 / CMS.871
As Taught In
Spring 2007
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course explores the international trade in television text, considering the ways in which 'foreign' programs find places within 'domestic' schedules. Looking at the life television texts maintain outside of their home market, this course examines questions of globalization and national cultures of production and reception. Students will be introduced to a range of positions about the nature of international textual trade, including economic arguments about the structuring of international markets and ethnographic studies about the role imported content plays in the formation of hybrid national identities. Students will be encouraged to consider the role American content is made to play in non-American markets.
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