Dublin
City University
School
of Communications
viewing 2004
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 2 Priest
BBC 1995 
classical narrative
structure & variations on narrative form
drama v news forms
of storytelling
criteria for critical analysis of tv drama
weeks 3-4-5 The Story Machine and Playpower and Canned Laughter (from ITV history of television 1985)
origins & development of tv drama
week 6 (reading week)
week 7 Northern Exposure 
week 8 Beggars & Choosers
week 9 Six Feet Under
week 10 The West Wing
week 11 Threat Matrix and The Hamburg
Cell
week 12 The Hamburg Cell and
Threat
Matrix
<<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