see recommended periodicals below | Critical viewing skills, history of TV, television violence, TV ratings red = recently added link”Television may well be the most important innovation in communication since the printing press, and it communicates in images that are as much visual and aural as verbal: learning the vocabularies of the arts, including the media arts, is an essential tool for understanding, and perhaps one day communicating, in the medium of television.” Toward Civilization (NEA,1988) |
- Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
- Are We Selling Out Our Children’s Minds?
- Breaking the Grip of Media Violence-
- Bridging TV And Literature: Literary Practices That Matter In And Out Of The Classroom
- Changing Channels
- Could Line Between What’s Real and What’s Fiction Get Any Blurrier?
- Critical Television Viewing Skills
- The Cronkite Report: Headlines and Soundbites (Discovery Channel)
- Electric Snow: TV In Our Time
- Grammar of TV & Film see also link
- Guide for the Analysis of TV
- Helping students become critical TV viewers
- How Media Constructs Reality TV Shows
- KNOW TV
- Languages of Television
- Lesson Plans: Critical Media Literacy: TV Programs
Everyone’s a Critic: Analyzing Sitcoms as Cultural Texts (NYT)
Teaching Action; Reality TV; Police Dramas; Sitcoms; Sci-fi; Teen Drama
Teacher Talk: Great Ideas!: Television and Violence
Lesson Plans (News, Advertising) Media Mastery (Channel One)
Special Effects (PBS-NOVA)
Taming the Tube: TV watching habits - Library of American Broadcasting
- Making Television Matter (Benton Foundation)
- PopCultures.Com articles and research on television
- Reality TV
- REViEW (Reducing Early Violence: Education Works!) (curriculum)
- Six Ways TV Is Changing Your Life
- Taking Charge of Your TV
- Teaching Satire Using “The Simpsons”
- Article: TV Occupied, Embroiled in Politics (10/04)
- Teaching TV & Film
- Television Milestones (issue of Hollywood Reporter)
- Television Production Handbook
- The Ratings Game (PBS Local News)
- Top 10 TV Writing Analysis Projects
- TV & Me
- TV Confidential
- TV Planet: Discover The Secrets of Television
- Understanding TV Ratings & V Chip
- Understanding TV Upfronts
- The Violence Formula: How to Analyze for Violence in TV, Movies and Video
- Ways to Analyze TV Programs
- What TV Ratings Really mean (see also Math In The Media)
Recommended periodicals
Recommended TV books here
24 Behind The Scenes |
Recommended video resources
LOST- The Cinematography Team |
24 Behind the Scenes The Editing Process |
ER The PropMasters |