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Title
Screening twentieth century Europe : television, history, memory / Ib Bondebjerg.
ISBN
9783030604967 (PDF ebook)
3030604969
9783030604950 (hbk.)
Published
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : color illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-60496-7 doi
Call Number
PN1992.8.H56
Dewey Decimal Classification
791.45658
Summary
This book offers a comparative study of historical television genres in Europe, with a special focus on Germany and Great Britain and their way of narrating twentieth century European history. The book analyses our common European past and memory through central historical television narratives. Each chapter looks at how historical TV genres, fictional and documentary, have dealt with the most salient and defining periods, events and changes in the twentieth century an age of extremes. Bondebjerg offers unique theoretical and analytical insight into the role of television in mediating and shaping the past. The book explores televisions creation of transnational cultural encounters across Europe in relation to our common and national past. The book addresses how television has influenced our understanding of history, collective memory and public debate over the twentieth century. It is fundamentally a book about the importance of the past in present day Europe and the centrality of media for transnational understanding.
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Includes index.
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Series
Palgrave European film and media studies.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783030604950
1. Introduction. A Century of Extremes and Profound Changes: Mediating European History.- 2. Memory and History as Mediated and Embodied Narratives.- 3. Historical Genres on Television: The Broader European Picture.- 4. The Meaning of Small Things: Everyday Drama and History from Below.- 5. History from Above: Historical Biopics.- 6. Grand illusions and The Great War: WW1 Narratives.- 7. Living on the Edge: The Roaring Twenties and World Crisis.- 8. Hell on Earth: WW2 War Narratives.- 9. Post-war Europe: Cold War, Welfare and Cultural Revolution.- 10. Europe 1989 and Beyond: Towards the New Millennium.- 11. Conclusion: History on Our Mind
the Forms and Functions of Mediated History.
