TV Drama and Social History


a course in the critical analysis of television
in the context of the history of the times

Dublin City University
School of Communications

Dr Helena Sheehan

lectures 2002

week 1
    introduction overview of course, introduction to website,
                    modus operandi: organisation of lectures, seminars, assessment, etc  (notes for each lecture can be accessed by clicking on the topic for each week)

storytelling

reading: Story / Myth / Dream / Drama

week 2  television

     reading: Television as a Medium of Drama in Irish Television Drama
 

week 3  criteria
   criteria for critical analysis of tv drama / academic approaches to televsion studies
    reading: Judgments of Television Drama in Irish Television Drama
 

week 4  the 1950s

week 5  the 1960s

    reading: Irish tv drama in the 1960s

week 6  the 1970s

    reading: Irish tv drama in the 1970s

week 7 the 1980s

    reading text on Hill Street Blues (HS)

week 8, 9, 10 the 1990s (and into the 21st century)

week 11 cultural transformation & tv drama: the case of the new South Africa

week 12 politics & tv drama : The West Wing and The Project

<<Story / Myth / Dream / Drama>>
<<Social History and TV Drama>>
  <<aims>><<themes>><<books>><<links>><<procedures>>
<<Interrogating TV Drama>>
<<Hill Street Blues: a critical analysis>>
<<Irish Television Drama: A Society and Its Stories>>
<<Soap Opera and Social Order: Glenroe, Fair City and Contemporary Ireland>>
<<Dr Helena Sheehan>>
<<School of Communications>>     <<DCU>>

E-mail: helena.sheehan@dcu.ie