COD 2013 - G676

Smart Television: A New Cognitive Challenge?

Teachers and Teacher trainers interested in audiovisual texts and communication and how the use of Television narratives may be used and articulated in the classroom.

1 sessions, start: 14-Feb

Course detail

Year: 2013
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. María Cristina Llorente
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Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 14 February 2013 01:30 pm 04:30 pm

Facilitator/s

María Cristina Llorente

Maria Cristina has been a tenured lecturer of Language and Culture II , III and IV at Instituto Superior del Profesorado "Presbitero A.M. Sáenz "Lomas de Zamora. Director of Language Centre Graham Greene, Longchamps. She has attended courses on Cinema Studies with theorists Eduardo A. Russo, Carlos Gamerro and Javier Porta Fuz. English Literature and Film Studies tenured lecturer at Universidad Nacional del Litoral 2005-2006, and Tenured Lecturer of Literary Theory at Universidad Nacional del Litoral 2009. Licenciada en Inglés UNL (2009). Final thesis on the film The Silence of the Lambs. Has attended courses with film director Adrian Caetano and film critic Gustavo Noriega. She has studied Film Criticism at Escuela de Cine de la revista El Amante in Capital Federal.
Teachers and Teacher trainers interested in audiovisual texts and communication and how the use of Television narratives may be used and articulated in the classroom.

- To understand what Televison Studies is about.
- To see and explore the pedagogical possibilities offered by the screening of new television series.
- To encourage teachers to design interdisciplinary and transcultural projects which may encompass all kinds of texts such as electronic tetxs and cybertexts.
- To enhance student's critical thinking through the viewing of cognitively challenging televisual texts.
The following series will be explored:

1- "Once Upon aTime"
2- "The Borgias"
3- "Ghost Whisperer"
4- "Grey's Anatomy"
5- "Boardwalk Empire"
After the theoretical introduction to the field of Television Studies and the concept of "Smart TV", scenes from the television series already mentioned will be screened and analysed.
- Bignell, J. (2002) "An Introduction to Television Studies" London and New York: Routledge.
- Piscitelli, A. (2011) "El Parentesis de Gutenberg". Buenos Aires: Ed Santillana.
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