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Combatting ‘a message without a code’: writing the ‘history’ documentary
Winston, Brian (2010) Combatting ‘a message without a code’: writing the ‘history’ documentary. In: Televising History: the pasts on the small screen. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 78-108. ISBN 9780230222083 (In Press)
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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.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Keywords: | television, history |
| Subjects: | P Mass Communications and Documentation > P300 Media studies P Mass Communications and Documentation > P303 Film studies |
| Divisions: | Media, Humanities & Technology > Lincoln School of Media |
| ID Code: | 2144 |
| Deposited By: | Brian Winston |
| Deposited On: | 25 Jan 2010 16:46 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Feb 2010 15:30 |
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