COD 2013 - PS108

"Working with Touch TV Show Pilot Episode"

Literature and language teachers. Teachers who would like to introduce media activities in their lessons.

1 sessions, start: 05-Apr

Course detail

Year: 2013
Level: Primary / Secondary
Language: English
Status: Postponed
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Martha Patricia De Cunto
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Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 05 April 2013 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Martha Patricia De Cunto

She holds a Master of Arts in Literary Linguistics from the University of Nottingham, UK and is currently doing a PhD in Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. She is also pursuing a Master's Degree in Cultural Studies at UNR. She has been a lecturer in American Literature, Children's Literature, YAL Literature and Introduction to Literary Studies at I.E.S. Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramón Fernández". She has also taught Creative Writing at ISP “Joaquín V. González”. She has been a teacher of Language and Literature in several schools in Buenos Aires for more than 30 years.
Literature and language teachers. Teachers who would like to introduce media activities in their lessons.
- Introducing structural narrative features of the show that could serve as a framework for all season one.
- Exploring space, informants and hints.
- Exploring cultural references.
- Discuss activities to teach Touch in class.
- Main features of the genre: magic, science fiction, detective, thriller.
- Discuss elements of mise-an-scène, the use of the camera, sound effects, voice-over narration, narrative structure, focalization.
The facilitator will give a brief introduction to the main features of the show. She will show it in class in chunks to explain the elements listed above. Participants will work on episode 5 in class.
Note: Participants are not expected to watch the show before the course.
- Beattie, Keith (2004) Documentary Screens. Non Fiction Film and Television China: Palgrave Macmillan.

- Grant, Barry Keith (ed.) (2003) Film Genre Reader III. Austin: University of Texas Press.

- Mittell, Jason (2004) Genre and Television. From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture. New York and London: Routledge.

- Wasko, Janet (ed.) (2005) A Companion to Television. UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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