Research Catalog

Title

Ancient Greece on British television / edited by Fiona Hobden and Amanda Wrigley.

Publication

• Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hobden, Fiona
• Wrigley, Amanda

Description

xiv, 252 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Ancient Greece has inspired television producers and captivated viewing audiences in the United Kingdom for over half a century. By examining how and why political, social and cultural narratives of Greece have been constructed through television's distinctive audiovisual languages, and in relation also to its influential sister-medium radio, this volume explores the nature and function of these public engagements with the written and material remains of the Hellenic past. Through 10 case studies drawn from feature programmes, educational broadcasts, children's animation, theatre play productions, dramatic fiction and documentaries broadcast across the decades, this collection offers wide-ranging insights into the significance of ancient Greece on British television.

Series Statement

Screening antiquity

Uniform Title

Screening antiquity.

Subjects

• Greece
• Historical television programs
• Historical television programs > Great Britain
• Hellenism
• Greece > Antiquities > On television
• Great Britain

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [224]-245) and index.

Contents

Broadcasting Greece: an introduction to Greek antiquity on the small screen / Fiona Hobden and Amanda Wrigley -- 1. Are we the Greeks? understanding antiquity and ourselves in television documentaries / Fiona Hobden -- 2. Louis MacNeice and 'The paragins of Hellas': ancient Greece as radio propaganda / Peter Golphin -- 3. The beginnings of Civilisation: television travels to Greece with Mortimer Wheeler and Compton Mackenzie / John Wyver -- 4. Tragedy for teens: ancient Greek tragedy on BBC and ITV schools television in the 1960s / Amanda Wrigley -- 5. The serpent son (1979): a science fiction aesthetic? / Tony Keen -- 6. Don Taylor, the 'old-fashioned populist'? The Theban plays (1986) and Iphigenia at Aulis (1990): production choices and audience responses / Lynn Fotheringham -- 7. The Odyssey in the 'broom cupboard': Ulysses 31 and Odysseus: The greatest hero of them all on children's BBC, 1985-1986 / Sarah Miles -- 8. Greek myth in the Whoniverse / Amanda Potter -- 9. The digital aesthetic in 'Atlantis: the evidence' (2010) / Anna Foka -- 10. Greece in the making: from intention to practicalities in television documentaries - a conversation with Michael Scott and David Wilson.

Call Number

MWGV (Great Britain) 18-4641

ISBN

• 9781474412599
• 1474412599

OCLC

1012799977

Title

Ancient Greece on British television / edited by Fiona Hobden and Amanda Wrigley.

Publisher

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Screening antiquity

Screening antiquity.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [224]-245) and index.

Added Author

Hobden, Fiona, editor.

Wrigley, Amanda, editor.

Research Call Number

MWGV (Great Britain) 18-4641