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To provide students with an overview of new developements in TV narration and streamings in the new millennium.

This seminar will examine major recent television series in the United States that have brought about a paradigmatic shift in serial narration, including  Dexter, How I Met Your Mother, Breaking Bad, Homeland, True Detective, Bloodline, House of Cards, Fargo, Orphan Black, Modern Family, Scandal, American Crime, The Good Wife, Veep, The Blacklist, Mad Men, Community and Orange Is the New Black.

Short lectures, group discussion, presentation.

An essential part of the seminar is the compulsory attendance of the AAAS-conference America Through the Small Screen: Television and Its Transformations, November 11-13, 2016.   https://www.uibk.ac.at/amerikastudien/AAAS2016.html

This conference substitutes the seminar sessions from December 2016 onwards. Last Seminar session is in November 2016.

Active participation, reading, short essays, seminar paper

All texts will be posted on OLAT.

Prerequisite for Master Program (812): none
Prerequisite for the Diploma Program (Diplomstudium: 343) and the Teacher Training Program (Lehramtsstudium: 344): completed first part of studies

For the Diploma Program (Diplomstudium: 343): SE2: American Literature/Culture, for the Teacher Training Program (Lehramtsstudium: 344): SE2: American Literature and Culture.

Due to substantial differences in the allocation of ECTS-Credits in various curricula (teacher training program - BA/MA English and American Studies), the requirements for this course vary. Information will be provided by the instructor at the beginning of the course.