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History on Television

by Ann Gray

How television shapes historical memory

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How television shapes historical memory

Ann Gray examines the choices and working relationships behind television’s presentation of the past. Drawing on case studies and interviews with academic and media professionals, the book considers how historians, commissioning editors, and producer-directors mediate historical material and competing interpretations. It also explores how television’s own production priorities influence which histories reach the screen and how they are framed. The focus is not only on what television depicts, but on the processes that shape historical representation and whose past becomes visible.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in history and collective memory in television and other media.
  • Students or professionals exploring the roles of historians and media workers in presenting history onscreen.

Themes

Television and historical representationCollective memory and whose history is shownHistorians and media professionals as mediatorsTelevision production priorities

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Book overview

History on Television considers recent changes in the media landscape, which have affected to a great degree how history in general, and whose history in particular, appears onscreen. Through a number of case studies, using material from interviews by the authors with academic and media professionals, the role of the 'professional' historian and that of media professionals - commissioning editors and producer/directors - as mediators of historical material and interpretations is analysed, and the ways in which the 'logics of television' shape historical output are outlined and discussed.

 

This book will be essential reading for all those interested in the complex processes involved in the representation of history on television.

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