Television in the Academy

How Should We Study TV?
Panel Discussion #1, Oct. 15, 2010, 3:00 pm at the University of Vermont


Here are the videos of our first event.

Director of UVM’s Humanities Program Andrew Barnaby and Prof. Tom Streeter presented some opening remarks:

intros

Prof. Sarah Nilsen, a historian in UVM’s Film and TV Studies program, spoke on the history of television studies:

Nilsen

Jason Mittell, Chair of Film and Media Culture at Middlebury College, continued:

Mittell

David Jenemann, an expert on the Frankfurt School in the UVM Film and TV Studies Program, offered his thoughts (click here for his slides: TVtalk ):

Jenemann

Finally, all three panelists opened up the discussion (which went on well beyond the end of the videotape, unfortunately):

discussion