TY  - GEN
T1  - The Great War on the small screen : representing the First World War in contemporary Britain
A1  - Hanna, Emma
LA  - English
PP  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
YR  - 2009
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn650486705
AB  - In Britain since the 1960s television has been the most influential medium of popular culture. Television is also the site where the Western Front of popular culture clashes with the Western Front of history. This book examines the ways in which those involved in the production of historical documentaries for this most influential media have struggled to communicate the stories of the First World War to British audiences. Documents in the BBC Written Archives Centre at Caversham, Berkshire, the Imperial War Museum, and the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives all inform the analysis. Interviews and correspondence with television producers, scriptwriters and production crew, as well as two First World War veterans who appeared in several recent documentaries provide new insights for the reader. Emma Hanna takes the reader behind the scenes of the making of the most influential documentaries from the landmark epic series The Great War (BBC, 1964) up to more recent controversial productions such as The Trench (BBC, 2002) and Not Forgotten: The Men Who Wouldn't Fight (BBC, 2008). By examining the production, broadcast and reception of a number of British television documentaries this book examines the difficult relationship between the war's history and its popular memory.
OP  - 190
CN  - D522.42 .H36 2009eb
SN  - 9780748633906
SN  - 0748633901
SN  - 1282620185
SN  - 9781282620186
SN  - 9786612620188
SN  - 6612620188
SN  - 9780748633890
SN  - 0748633898
KW  - World War, 1914-1918 : Television and the war.
KW  - Historical television programs : Great Britain.
KW  - Documentary television programs : Great Britain.
KW  - World War, 1914-1918 : Historiography.
KW  - World War, 1914-1918 : Great Britain : Historiography.
KW  - Émissions historiques télévisées : Grande-Bretagne.
KW  - Documentaires télévisés : Grande-Bretagne.
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 : Historiographie.
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS : Television : Reference.
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS : Television : History & Criticism.
KW  - Documentary television programs
KW  - Historical television programs
KW  - Historiography
KW  - War and television
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Dokumentarfilm
KW  - Fernsehsendung
KW  - Weltkrieg : 1914-1918
KW  - Großbritannien
KW  - 1914-1918
KW  - Geschichte 1964-2008.
ER  -