a course in the critical analysis of television
in the context of the history of the times
Dublin
City University
School
of Communications
lectures
for supplementary activities, go to moodle.dcu.ie
Dublin
City University
School
of Communications
lectures
for supplementary activities, go to moodle.dcu.ie
week
1
introduction overview of course, introduction to website
modus operandi:
organisation of lectures, seminars, assessment, etc
(notes for each lecture can be accessed by clicking on the topic for each
week)
online reading: Story / Myth / Dream / Drama
online reading:
Television
as a Medium of Drama in Irish
Television Drama
week 2 criteria
criteria
for critical analysis of tv drama / academic approaches to televsion studies
online
reading:
Judgments
of Television Drama in Irish
Television Drama
week 3 the 1950s and the 1960s
online reading: Irish tv drama in the 1960s
week 4 the 1970s
online reading: Irish tv drama in the 1970s
week 5 the 1980s
online
reading
text on Hill
Street Blues
online
reading: Irish
tv drama in the 1980s
week 6 reading week
reading: The Continuing Story of Irish Television Drama
week 7 & 8 the 1990s
week 9 turn of the century tv drama
week 10 politics & tv drama : case study of The West Wing
week 11 post-9-11 tv drama
week 12 the future of tv drama
treatments for new tv dramas (preceded by moodle forum)
<<Story
/ Myth / Dream / Drama>>
<<Social
History and TV Drama>>
<<aims>><<themes>><<books>><<links>><<procedures>>
<<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
