There is no expectation that students will learn about TV drama as a genre or form. What is expected though is an understanding of how serious fictional television Engadget its viewers by representing real world events, themes, people and places through a series of technical and symbolic devices. There are, however, a set of sub-genres or dramatic types that have different conventions:
Teen dramas: (which depend entirely on the target audience empathising with a range of authentic characters and age-specific situations and anxieties)
Soap operas: (which never end, convey a sense of real time and depend entirely on us accepting then as 'socially realist')
Costume dramas: (which are often intertextually linked to 'classic' novels or plays and offer a set of pleasures that are very different to dramas set in our owl world contexts and times)
Medical/hospital dramas: (which interplay our vicarious pleasure at witnessing trauma and suffering on the part of patients and relatives with a set of staff narratives that deploy soap opera conventions)
Police/crime dramas: (which work in the same way as medical/hospital dramas but we can substitute the health context for representation of criminals and victims)
Docu-dramas: (which are set apart from the others by their attempts to dramatise significant real events which usually have either human interest, celebrity focus or political significance)
Each of these types has its own set of conventions, its typical scheduling patterns, its target audiences, it's narrative formulae and its history/expectations.
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