Social History and TV Drama

• to examine the role of story-telling in contemporary consciousness

 
• to scrutinise the myth-making function of television drama

 
• to study television drama in its socio-historical context

 
• to compare / contrast the tv drama of different societies
• Ireland
• Britain
• America
                        of successive decades
• 1950s
• 1960s
• 1970s
• 1980s
• 1990s
• to trace the recurring
• themes
• images
• plots
• settings
• modes of characterisation
  and the patterns of change emerging in these over the years
 
 
• to reflect on the relationship between the shifting shapes of tv drama

                    and the larger pattern of social experience
 
 

  Irish Television Drama: A Society and Its Stories

  Story Myth Dream Drama
   Interrogating TV Drama

  Soap Opera and Social Order: Glenroe, Fair City and Contemporary Ireland

  Hill Street Blues: A Critical Analysis

Social History and TV Drama

Lectures

School of Communications

Dublin City University
 

Dr Helena Sheehan

E-mail:helena.sheehan@dcu.ie