COMM 320 The American Television Industry
This course examines how historically specific economic forces, government regulations, technological innovations, advertisers, producers, and audiences have interacted to shape the development of the American television industry and how its cultural products, narratives, and processes have become part of our cultural history. It further considers how the synergistic convergence of internet technologies with video delivery and the rise of de-centered production and distribution have changed industry practices and the ways that television shows are developed, financed, produced, and distributed to the domestic and international markets. Programming will be screened in class.