Criteria
lecture in
DCU
course
Social History and TV Drama
taught by
Dr Helena Sheehan
Are there coherent criteria for judging tv drama ?
What makes some tv drama great or good and other tv drama mediocre or bad ?
What makes a story worth telling ?
What makes some stories more significant than others ?
What makes some tv drama more memorable and meaningful than the rest ?
Is tv drama ideological ? some of it ? all of it ? in what ways ?
reading:
Judgments of Television Drama
in
Irish Television Drama
including
Interrogating TV Drama
Prime Time Ideology (Gitlin) in Television: the Critical View
(Newcomb)
see
bibliography
links
Social History and TV Drama
Story / Myth / Dream / Drama
Interrogating TV Drama
Irish Television Drama: A Society and Its Stories
The Continuing Story of Irish Television Drama
Soap Opera and Social Order:
E-mail:
helena.sheehan@dcu.ie