Television histories : shaping collective memory in the media age / edited by Gary R. Edgerton and Peter C. Rollins.

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9780813158297
081315829X
0813171113
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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Television histories.DDC classification:

791.45/658 22

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PN1992.56 .T45 2001eb

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05.36

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Contents:

History TV and popular memory / Steve Anderson -- Masculinity and femininity in television's historical fictions: Young Indiana Jones chronicles and Dr. Quinn, medicine woman / Mimi White -- Quantum leap: the postmodern challenge of television as history / Robert Hanke -- Profiles in courage: televisual history on the new frontier / Daniel Marcus -- Victory at sea: Cold War epic / Peter C. Rollins -- Breaking the mirror: Dutch television and the history of the Second World War / Chris Vos -- Contested public memories: Hawaiian history as Hawaiian or American experience / Carolyn Anderson -- Mediating Thomas Jefferson: Ken Burns as popular historian / Gary R. Edgerton -- Pixies: homosexuality, anti-communism, and the Army-McCarthy hearings / Thomas Doherty -- Images of history in Israel television news: the territorial dimension of collective memories, 1987-1990 / Netta Ha-Ilan -- Memories of 1945 and 1963: American television coverage of the end of the Berlin Wall, November 9, 1989 / David Culbert -- Television: the first flawed rough drafts of history / Philip M. Taylor -- The History Channel and the challenge of historical programming / Brian Taves -- Rethinking television history / Douglas Gomery -- Nice guys last fifteen seasons: Jack Benny on television, 1950-1965 / James L. Baughman -- Organizing difference on global TV: television history and cultural geography / Michael Curtin -- Selected bibliography: additional sources for researching television as historian / Kathryn Helgesen Fuller-Seely.

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Summary: "From Ken Burns's documentaries to historical dramas such as Roots, from A & E's Biography series to CNN, television has become the primary source for historical information for tens of millions of Americans today. Why has television become such a respected authority? What falsehoods enter our collective memory as truths? How is one to know what is real and what is imagined--or ignored--by producers, directors, or writers? Gary Edgerton and Peter Rollins have collected a group of essays that answer these and many other questions. The contributors examine the full spectrum of historical genres, but also institutions such as the History Channel and production histories of such series as The Jack Benny Show, which ran for fifteen years. The authors explore the tensions between popular history and professional history, and the tendency of some academics to declare the past "off limits" to nonscholars. Several of them point to the tendency for television histories to embed current concerns and priorities within the past, as in such popular shows as Quantum Leap and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. The result is an insightful portrayal of the power television possesses to influence our culture."--Publisher's description.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-365) and indexes.

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"From Ken Burns's documentaries to historical dramas such as Roots, from A & E's Biography series to CNN, television has become the primary source for historical information for tens of millions of Americans today. Why has television become such a respected authority? What falsehoods enter our collective memory as truths? How is one to know what is real and what is imagined--or ignored--by producers, directors, or writers? Gary Edgerton and Peter Rollins have collected a group of essays that answer these and many other questions. The contributors examine the full spectrum of historical genres, but also institutions such as the History Channel and production histories of such series as The Jack Benny Show, which ran for fifteen years. The authors explore the tensions between popular history and professional history, and the tendency of some academics to declare the past "off limits" to nonscholars. Several of them point to the tendency for television histories to embed current concerns and priorities within the past, as in such popular shows as Quantum Leap and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. The result is an insightful portrayal of the power television possesses to influence our culture."--Publisher's description.

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