Research Catalog

Title

Cinema, television and history : new approaches / edited by Laura Mee and Johnny Walker.

Publication

• Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
• ©2014

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Additional Authors

• Mee, Laura
• Walker, Johnny, 1987-

Description

vii, 284 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

This book 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 much as it is about the endeavours of the practising historian through the exploration of the archive. Divided into five parts, the book is knowingly broad and diverse in terms of the case studies featured within it, and the means through which these examples are examined, explored, and utilised in their respective chapters.

Subjects

• Motion pictures and history
• Television and history
• History in motion pictures
• History on television

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

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.

Call Number

MFL 15-5579

ISBN

• 9781443853798
• 1443853798

OCLC

866584229

Title

Cinema, television and history : new approaches / edited by Laura Mee and Johnny Walker.

Publisher

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Copyright Date

©2014

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Mee, Laura, editor.

Walker, Johnny, 1987- editor.

Research Call Number

MFL 15-5579