The Great War on the small screen : representing the First World War in contemporary Britain /

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 documen...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Hanna, Emma
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press ©2009.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1r20t1
جدول المحتويات:
  • An unhealed wound : Britain and the First World War
  • A monumental monument : The Great War (BBC, 1964)
  • Survivors : veterans and the nature of personal testimony
  • Heroes and villains
  • Drama, comedy and drama documentary
  • Over the top : reality experiential television
  • The fear of forgetting.