| Description |
1 online resource (292 pages) |
| Contents |
Part I: New meanings, new methods -- TV and cinema : what forms of history do we need? / John Ellis -- Part II: Recontextualising cinema and television history -- "We must go about it in our own way and have complete control" : the British film industry and the Metropolitan Police Press Bureau, 1919-1938 / Alex Rock -- From Cathy "queen of the mods" to Paula "pop princess" : women, music television and adolescent female identity / Hazel Collie -- The Polish TV fictionscape : from programme importation to domestic revival / Sylwia Szostak -- Maintaining a Critical eye : the political avant-garde on Channel 4 in the 1990s / Steve Presence -- Part III: Rethinking histories of cinema and television -- "These people are the enemy!" : the moral responsibilities of film and television history within the humanities / Dieter Declercq -- The trans/national divide : towards a typology of "transatlantic British cinema" during the 1930s and 1940s / Nathan Townsend -- "Marvellous, awesome, true-to-life, epoch-making, a new dimension" : reconsidering the early history of colour television in Britain / Helen Wheatley -- Part IV: Rethinking history through cinema and television -- Known pleasures : nostalgia and joy division mythology in 24 hour party people and Control / Caitlin Shaw -- "Media virgins vs. political lions" : historicising the gender politics of Question time / Jilly Boyce Kay -- Rethinking history through documentary : Paradise lost and the documented case of "The West Memphis three" / Thomas Joseph Watson -- Part V: The impact of new technologies -- DVDs, streams, comment threads and developing a television canon / Abby Waysdorf -- Using social media to build hidden screen histories : a case study of the Pebble Mill project / Vanessa Jackson -- Historical subjectivity and film style : re-enactment and digital technologies in contemporary historical cinema / Adam Gallimore |
| Summary |
Includes essays from established and up-and-coming scholars, Cinema, Television and History: New Approaches rethinks, recontextualises and reviews the relationship between cinema, television and history. This volume incorporates a wide range of methods to a variety of topics, welcoming both empirical and theoretical approaches, as well as studies which merge the two. It is a book about how historical events are interpreted and adapted across cinema and television as the basis of a story, as .. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters |
| Notes |
English |
|
Print version record |
| Subject |
Motion pictures and history.
|
|
Television and history.
|
|
History in motion pictures.
|
|
History on television.
|
|
Films, cinema.
|
|
Television.
|
|
History: theory & methods.
|
|
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
|
|
History in motion pictures
|
|
History on television
|
|
Motion pictures and history
|
|
Television and history
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Mee, Laura
|
| ISBN |
9781443868877 |
|
1443868876 |
|
