Social History and TV Drama

 
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 1998

 
 
29 September 98
(notes for each lecture can be accessed by clicking on the topic for each week)
 
6 October 98

       storytelling 
 

13 October 98    television 
   
 
20 October 98  criteria  
 
27 October 98        the 1950s               
 
3 November 98       the 1960s

10 November 98    the 1970s
 
17 November 98      the 1970s
 
24 November 98      the 1980s

                                also see text on Hill Street Blues (HS) 

 
1 December 98     the 1980s

 
8 December 98     the 1990s

 

15 December 97   the 1990s

 
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