Television Histories Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age First Edition by Gary Edgerton, Peter Rollins ISBN 0813190568 978-0813190563

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ISBN 10: 0813190568 
ISBN 13: 978-0813190563

Author: Gary R. Edgerton,  Peter C. Rollins

From Ken Burns’s documentaries to historical dramas such as Roots, from A&E’s Biography series to CNN, television has become the primary source for historical information for tens of millions of Americans today. Why has television become such a respected authority? What falsehoods enter our collective memory as truths? How is one to know what is real and what is imagined―or ignored―by producers, directors, or writers?

Gary Edgerton and Peter Rollins have collected a group of essays that answer these and many other questions. The contributors examine the full spectrum of historical genres, but also institutions such as the History Channel and production histories of such series as The Jack Benny Show, which ran for fifteen years. The authors explore the tensions between popular history and professional history, and the tendency of some academics to declare the past “off limits” to nonscholars. Several of them point to the tendency for television histories to embed current concerns and priorities within the past, as in such popular shows as Quantum Leap and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. The result is an insightful portrayal of the power television possesses to influence our culture.

Table of contents: 

Part I: Prime-Time Entertainment Programming as Historian

1 History TV and Popular Memory

2 Masculinity and Femininity in Television’s Historical Fictions: Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

3 Quantum Leap: The Postmodern Challenge of Television as History

3 Quantum Leap: The Postmodern Challenge of Television as History

4 Profiles in Courage: Televisual History on the New Frontier

4 Profiles in Courage: Televisual History on the New Frontier

Part II: The Television Documentary as Historian

5 Victory at Sea: Cold War Epic

5 Victory at Sea: Cold War Epic

6 Breaking the Mirror: Dutch Television and the History of the Second World War

7 Contested Public Memories: Hawaiian History as Hawaiian or American Experience

8 Mediating Thomas Jefferson: Ken Burns as Popular Historian

Part III: TV News and Public Affairs Programming as Historian

9 Pixies: Homosexuality, Anti-Communism, and the Army-McCarthy Hearings

10 Images of History in Israel Television News: The Territorial Dimensions of Collective Memories, 1987–1990

11 Memories of 1945 and 1963: American Television Coverage of the End of the Berlin Wall, November 9, 1989

12 Television: The First Flawed Rough Drafts of History

Part IV: Television Production, Reception, and History

13 The History Channel and the Challenge of Historical Programming
14 Rethinking Television History

15 Nice Guys Last Fifteen Seasons: Jack Benny on Television, 1950–1965

16 Organizing Difference on Global TV: Television History and Cultural Geography

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