Two topics are offered for Fall 2018. Students may take one or both for credit. Section A1: TV Genres and Fandom. TV programs have huge fan bases, whether cult audiences, fanboys and fangirls, or X-Philes and Trekkies. Scholarship on reception theory and fan studies is used to explore multiple television genres and their connections to enduring varieties of fandom. Section B1: Broadcasting Horror. Examines the censorship of horror; horror's relation to sound; the aesthetics of TV horror; horror and genre mixing; the serialization of horror; broadcast vs. cable horror; and the violence of horror.