Abercombie, N Television and Society  1996
Allen, R (ed)  To Be Continued: Soap Operas Around the World  1995
Allen,  R (ed)  Channels of Discourse  1987
Ang, I  Watching Dallas  1985
Barnouw, E  Tube of Plenty: The Evolution of American Television  1982
Bignell, Lacey & Macmurraugh-Kavanagh (ed) British Television Drama: Past, Present & Future  2000
Brandt, G  British Television Drama  1981
Brandt, G   British Television Drama of the 1980s  1993
Buckingham, D  Public Secrets Eastenders and Its Audience 1987
Burton, G Talking Television 2000
Buxton, D  From the Avengers to Miami Vice: Form and Ideology in TV Series 1990
Cantor, M  Prime Time Television London 1994
Cartwright, Hague, & Lavery  Deny All Knowledge: Reading the X-Files  1996
Cashmore, E   And then there was television  1994
Caughie, J Television Drama:Realism, Modernisn & British Culture 2000
Comstock, G  Television in America 1980
Coleman, J & Rollet, B  Television in Europe 1997
Curtin, M & Spigel, L  The Revolution Wasn't Televised  1997
Davis, M  What’s So Funny ?  1993
Dines, G & Humes, JM  Gender, Race and Class in Media 1995
Dyer, R  Coronation Street 1981
Esslin, M  The Age of Television 1982
Fiske, J  Television Culture  1987
Fiske, J & Hartley, J  Reading Television 1989
Geraghty, C  Women and Soap Opera 1991
Geraghty, C & Lusted, D The Television Studies Book 1998
Gitlin, T  Inside Prime Time 1983
Gitlin, T (ed) Watching Televsion  1987
Gray, F  Women and Laughter 1994
Green, P Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology & Gender in Hollywood 1998
Greenberg, B  Life on Television 1980
Gripsrud, J  The Dynasty Years 1995
Hartlet, J  Tele-ology  1992
Javna, J  Cult TV 1985
Kelly, M & O'Connor, B (ed)  Media Audiences in Ireland 1997
Kiberd, D (ed)  Media in Ireland 1997
Lavery, D (ed) This Thing of Ours: Investigating the Sopranos 2002
Lewis, J  The Ideological Octopus  1991
Lichter, R & L PrimeTime: How TV Portrays American Culture 1994
McLoone, M & MacMahon, J  Television and Irish Society 1984
Masterman, L (ed)  Television Mythologies  1984
Mellencamp, P  (ed)  Logics of Television 1990
Neale, S & Knutnik, F   (ed)    Popular Film and Television 1990
Nelson, R TV Drama in Transition 1997
Newcomb, H (ed)  Television: The Critical View  (6th ed) 2000
O’Connor, J  (ed)  American History / American Television 1983
O'Donnell, H Good Times, Bad Times: Soap Operas & Society in Western Europe 1999
Orlik, P  Critiquing Radio & Television Content 1988
Palmer, D  Comedy Developments in Criticism 1984
Palmer, J  Taking Humour Seriously 1994
Pettitt, L Screeing Ireland 2000
Rowland, W & Watkins, B  Interpreting Television  1984
Self , D  Television Drama: An Introduction  1984
Selby, K & Cowdery, R How to Study Television 1995
Sheehan, H   Irish Television Drama: A Society and Its Stories 1987
Sheehan, H Tracking the Tiger: The Continuing Story pf Irish Television Drama 2003
Silverstone, R  The Message of Television: Myth and Narrative 1981
Silj, A (ed)  East of Dallas  1988
Sklar, R   Prime-Time America 1980
Smith, A (ed) Television: An International History 1995
Stempel, T Storytellers to the Nation 1996
Taylor, E Prime Time Families: Television Culture in Postwar America 1989
Thompson, R Television's Second Golden Age 1996
Tulloch, J   Television Drama 1990
Warren, M Seeing Through the Media 1997
Watson, MA Defining Visions: Television & the American Experince Since 1945 1998
Zipes, J  Fairytales and the Art of Subversion 1983

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Social History and TV Drama (index)
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Story / Myth / Dream / Drama       Interrogating TV Drama
Irish Television Drama: A Society and Its Stories     Helena Sheehan
Soap Opera and Social Order: Glenroe, Fair City and Contemporary Ireland
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