Winston, Brian (2010) Combatting ‘a message without a code’: writing the ‘history’ documentary. In: Televising History: mediating the past in postwar Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 42-58. ISBN 9780230222083

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Abstract

Television, although its iconicity is unrivalled, is limited as a medium for historical exposition. Taking an episode of a US public television series, these limitations are demonstrated: the medium's visual imperative v. the happenstance of available images; the medium's intolerance of nuance; political constraints.

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Additional Information:	Television, although its iconicity is unrivalled, is limited as a medium for historical exposition. Taking an episode of a US public television series, these limitations are demonstrated: the medium's visual imperative v. the happenstance of available images; the medium's intolerance of nuance; political constraints.
Keywords:	television, history
Subjects:	P Mass Communications and Documentation > P300 Media studies P Mass Communications and Documentation > P303 Film studies
Divisions:	College of Arts > Faculty of Media, Humanities & Performance > Lincoln School of Media
Depositing User:	Brian Winston
Date Deposited:	25 Jan 2010 16:46
Last Modified:	13 Mar 2013 08:34
URI:	http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/2144

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