
a course in the critical
analysis of television
in the context of the
history of the times
Dublin
City University
School
of Communications
Dr
Helena Sheehan
Lectures 1998
29 September
98
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)
6 October
98
storytelling
13 October 98
television
20 October 98 criteria
criteria for critical analysis
of tv drama
academic approaches to
televsion studies
27 October 98
the
1950s
3 November 98
the
1960s
10 November 98
the
1970s
17 November 98
the
1970s
24 November 98
the
1980s
also see text on Hill
Street Blues (HS)

multimedia slide show in class
1 December 98
the
1980s
8 December 98
the
1990s

multimedia slide show in class
15 December 97
the
1990s
<<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>>
<<Helena
Sheehan>>
<<School
of Communications>> <<DCU>>
E-mail:
helena.sheehan@dcu.ie