History on British Television : Constructing Nation, Nationality and Collective Memory (Studies in Popular Culture)

Dillon, Robert

Manchester University Press（2010/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 256 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780719080920
• DDC分類 791.430941

Full Description

History on British television explores the production and consumption of factual history programming on British television. The chronological development of Western historiography is compared to phases of British television history production, highlighting how progressive developments in social and cultural trends have shaped what we make of the past and what the past makes of us.

Charting the rise and dominance of television history as a popular cultural form, the book examines how the past has become a model for citizenship, prioritising certain groups and classes, marginalising others. Clearly defined chapters deal with the battle between the BBC and its commercial rivals to become the 'voice of the nation'.

Engaging, informed and easy to read, the book is intended for researchers, teachers and students interested in television and historical studies, as well as readers keen to understand how collective memory, television and history have become a potent propaganda mixture of stylised myths reinforcing nationality, identity and citizenship.

Contents

List of figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction: switching on the past
1. Whose past is it anyway?
2. Post-war television and history
3. The making of a popular commodity
4. Bringing the past alive
5. Truth or drama: Documentary history
6. Characterising the past
7. Britain as a warrior-nation
8. Presenting the past
9. Nation, nationality and television history
Bibliography
Index of programme titles
General index