Screening Twentieth Century Europe: Television, History, Memory Ib Bondebjerg

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• ISBN 10: 3030604969 
• ISBN 13: 9783030604967
• Author: Ib Bondebjerg

This book offers a comparative study of historical television genres in Europe, with a special focus on Germany and Great Britain and their way of narrating twentieth century European history. The book analyses our common European past and memory through central historical television narratives. Each chapter looks at how historical TV genres, fictional and documentary, have dealt with the most salient and defining periods, events and changes in the twentieth century― an age of extremes. Bondebjerg offers unique theoretical and analytical insight into the role of television in mediating and shaping the past. The book explores television’s creation of transnational cultural encounters across Europe in relation to our common and national past. The book addresses how television has influenced our understanding of history, collective memory and public debate over the twentieth century. It is fundamentally a book about the importance of the past in present day Europe and the centrality ofmedia for transnational understanding.
Table contents:

1. Introduction: Mediating European History
2. History as Mediated and Embodied Narratives
3. Historical Genres on Television: The Broader European Picture
4. The Meaning of Small Things: Everyday Drama and History from Below
5. History from Above: Historical Biopics
6. Grand Illusions and the Great War: World War I Narratives
7. Living on the Edge: The Roaring Twenties and World Crisis
8. Hell on Earth: World War II Narratives
9. Post-war Europe: A Social and Cultural Revolution
10. Europe 1989 and Beyond: Towards a New Millennium
11. Conclusion: History on Our Minds and the Forms of Mediated
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