I know it says Movie, but I need a TV show, I would prefer a show like Doctor Who
Your paper should examine a television text or series of television texts. You might analyze several representative episodes of a single series across multiple seasons, an entire season, or a few selected episodes that inform your criticism. You might also choose to compare multiple series. Whatever the television text, you should be able to place the message(s) in a recognizable genre, or you should be able to propose a previously unidentified/unexamined genre. Further, there must be a clear rationale for selecting the texts you chose. Finally, you should have a clearly articulated research question that you will answer through close reading of your selected text(s). Secure approval for your topic and approach your instructor before you invest much time on a topic. The final paper should be 6-10 pages (not counting reference pages, title page, abstract or appendices).
Requirements
Include an introduction that clearly, yet briefly, justifies your selected television text. This is also the section where you would identify any previous studies of that program, or other examples of television series or episodes in the same genre genre (i.e., a review of relevant literature). Additionally, this section should serve the standard functions of an introduction (catch the reader’s attention, give a reason to read your paper, end with a clear purpose statement and preview of the remaining sections of your paper). This section should also provide at least one research question that you will address in your paper.
Describe your method. For most of you, you will be explaining and referencing a method of criticism described by O’Donnell (2017) or Foss (2004). However, if you are familiar with another method of criticism or find another method of criticism that is more appropriate to apply to the reading of your selected television text, you are welcome to explain and cite that method instead. This section will also include a brief (not exhaustive) review of other examples of studies that have applied this method.
Texts: Provide a brief descriiption of the program(s) you are analyzing, including a range of time when and on which network(s) the selected episodes were first broadcast, a brief synopsis of the premise of the program(s), and a brief introduction of relevant characters. Do not include a long, irrelevant, history or overly detailed series and episode summaries.
The actual criticism should describe/quote selectively from the texts using the concepts of the method, interpreting the text through those concepts. Be sure that you are conducting a critical analysis of the texts, not just a “TV Guide-style” review of the program. You should take a position and argue for it. Be clear about your conclusions and provide evidence from the texts or other sources (e.g., scholarly journals or books) for your conclusion.
Conclusion: What interesting insights emerged in the paper? What we can learn about this genre, narrative, portrayal, issue, etc. from your analysis? You should also identify future directions for study (e.g., other examples of this genre or other programs with similar portrayals that you might analyze, or other genres or methods of criticism that this text may be examined through). End your paper by reviewing your findings and argument, and show that you have accomplished the purpose you identified in the introduction.
