For the Fall 2008 semester we will be using the following textbook:
Butler, Jeremy G. Television: Critical Methods and Applications. 3rd ed. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007.

Chapter 1: Televisions Ebb and Flow in a Postnetwork Era (1: Ebb & Flow)
Chapter 2: Narrative Structure: Television Stories (2: Narrative Structure)
Chapter 3: Building Narrative: Character, Actor, Star (3: Building Narrative)
Chapter 4: Beyond and Beside Narrative Structure (4: Beyond Narrative)
Chapter 5: Style and Setting: Mise-en-Scene (5: Mise-en-Scene)
Chapter 6: Style and the Camera: Videography and Cinematography (6: Videography)
Chapter 7: Style and Editing (7: Editing)
Chapter 8: Style and Sound (8: Sound)
Chapter 9: A History of Television Style (9: Style History)
Chapter 10: Music Television (10: Music TV)
Chapter 11: Animated Television: The Narrative Cartoon (11: Animated TV)
Chapter 12: The Television Commercial (12: TV Commercial)
Chapter 13: Television Studies: Alternatives to Empirical Approaches (13: TV Studies)