Dublin
City University
School
of Communications
viewing 2002
This
is a tentative timetable. It is likely to change in the course of the semester.
You should check it weekly. Please do not ask for tapes used in class for
individual viewing. If you miss a screening, find another production that
deals with the same themes as what is shown in class.
week 1 "Shot Through the Heart" (BBC 1999)
classical
narrative structure
drama
v news forms of storytelling
weeks 2 & 3 "The Truth About Claire" (RTE 1991)
variations
on narrative form
tv
drama & irish society
criteria for critical analysis
of tv drama
week 4 "Pleasantville"
the world as constructed by 1950s US tv
week 5 (graduation)
weeks 6 & 7 "The Story Machine" "Playpower" and "Canned Laughter" (from ITV history of television)
origins & development of tv drama
week 8 "Northern Exposure"
week 9 "Nothing Sacred"
"The Newsroom"
week 10 "The Sopranos"
week 11 "Yizo Yizo"
"6 Feet Under"
week 12 " The West
Wing"
<<Story
/ Myth / Dream / Drama>>
<<Social
History and TV Drama>>
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<<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