David Cannadine

Gebundenes Buch

History and the Media

Beschreibung

This book examines the boom in history, in television and film, newspapers and radio and the constraints and opportunities it offers. Leading historians and broadcasters, such as Melvyn Bragg, Simon Schama and David Puttnam, draw on their personal experiences to explore the problems and highlights of representing history in the media.

Autor

MELVYN BRAGG Novelist and BroadcasterTAYLOR DOWNING Writer and Independent Television ProducerMAX HASTINGS Writer and HistorianTRISTRAM HUNT Writer and Historian, Queen Mary College, University of London, UKJEREMY ISAACS Independent Television ProducerIAN KERSHAW Professor of Modern History, University of Sheffield, UKDAVID PUTTNAM Film ProducerSIMON SCHAMA University Professor of Art History and History, Columbia University, New York, USAJEAN SEATON Professor of Media History, University of Westminster, London, UKROGER SMITHER Keeper of the Film and Video Archives, Imperial War Museum, London, UKJOHN TUSA Managing Director of the Barbican Arts Centre, London, UK

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4039-2037-9
• Seitenzahl: 175
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 137mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 321g
• ISBN-13: 9781403920379
• ISBN-10: 1403920370
• Artikelnr.: 21521411

Rezensionen

'This book brings us the thoughts of Ian Kershaw, Tristram Hunt, Melvyn Bragg, Simon Schama, John Tusa, Jeremy Isaacs and others, in pieces that build up into a surprisingly penetrating look at what history can do for the media, and - this is the surprising bit - what the broadcast media can do for history...History made and in the making, and the time-loops it both creates and follows, prove endlessly fascinating in these writings. There is something here that will make anyone think more deeply about the interaction between a new and apparently instant medium and an old and apparently time-enhanced discipline. It is unlikely, after this, that anyone can continue to accuse the best of TV history of being nothing byt a pageant of kings and queens.' - Financial Times Magazine

'interesting and illuminating essays on diverse aspects of this recent cultural and intellectual revolution [the flourishing of history in the media]. - The Sunday Telegraph

'Simon Schamaand Jeremy Isaacs offer particularly eloquent apologia for the sort of period dramatics that have happened on television' - The Spectator