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Book review: Sue Vice, Jack Rosenthal. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2009. (2010)

Sheehan, Helena

Book review: Sue Vice, Jack Rosenthal. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2009. (2010)

Sheehan, Helena

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The Television Series is a series of books published by Manchester University Press on authors of television drama. This is a review of a book by Sue Vice on Jack Rosenthal for European Journal of Communication.

http://doras.dcu.ie/14816/

Marked Mark

Irish television drama: a society and its stories (2004)

Sheehan, Helena

Irish television drama: a society and its stories (2004)

Sheehan, Helena

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This book is a social history of Ireland seen through its television drama. It begins with the introduction of indigenous television in Ireland with the launch of RTE in 1962. It traces 25 years of Irish society in a process of social transformation and analyses the role of television drama in a struggle to define the nature of that process. It probes television drama in terms of its deep structures, in the context of the total flow of television and of the larger panorama of social experience. It charts the changing patterns of representation of gender roles, moral codes, class conflict, rural-urban tensions, religious belief, political power, domestic life, emigration, education and republicanism. It is a comprehensive account of plays, series and serials. It scrutinises the assumptions underlying them, the power structures surrounding them and the controversies set off by them.

http://doras.dcu.ie/4627/

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Soap opera and social order: Glenroe, Fair City and contemporary Ireland. (1993)

Sheehan, Helena

Soap opera and social order: Glenroe, Fair City and contemporary Ireland. (1993)

Sheehan, Helena

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How far can contemporary Ireland recognise itself in Glenroe and Fair City? To what extent do its characters, settings and storylines testify to the temper of the times? What relation do these serials bear to the lives we lead? This paper will look at Ireland's two running television serials in terms of the larger pattern of social experience. It will query both the presences and the absences in their representation of contemporary Ireland. It will explore the soap opera form in terms of its potential for imagining Ireland in a more expansive and penetrating fashion. It will draw strong conclusions about the failure of existing serials to fulfill this potential.

http://doras.dcu.ie/4694/

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The continuing story of Irish television drama: tracking the tiger (2004)

Sheehan, Helena

The continuing story of Irish television drama: tracking the tiger (2004)

Sheehan, Helena

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Irish Television Drama: A Society and Its Stories appeared in 1987. It traced 25 years (1962-1987) of Irish society in a process of social transformation and the role of television drama in a struggle to define the nature of that process. This book is a sequel to that, advancing the story another 15 years (1987-2002). From Fair City to Family to Father Ted, it examines television drama in the time of the tiger, striving to come to terms with the flux of Irish life in an increasingly globalised world, in a time of significant changes in the climate of broadcasting and its structures of storytelling.

http://doras.dcu.ie/4628/

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