Television histories : shaping collective memory in the media age / edited by Gary R. Edgerton and Peter C. Rollins.
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
[2001]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Television as Historian: A Different Kind of History Altogether
- Pt. 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
- 4. Profiles in Courage: Televisual History on the New Frontier
- Pt. II. The Television Documentary as Historian
- 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
- Pt. 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 Dimension 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
- Pt. IV. Television Production, Reception, and History
- 13. The History Channel and the Challenge of Historical Programming Brian Taves
- 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
- Selected Bibliography: Additional Sources for Researching Television as Historian
- Contributors
- Television and Film Index
- General Index.