Televising History

1. Introduction
Ann Gray, Erin Bell

Part I. Perspectives

2. ‘Once Upon a Time …’
John Corner

3. History on Television
Luisa Cigognetti, Pierre Sorlin

4. Combatting ‘A Message without a Code
Brian Winston

5. Contexts of Production
Ann Gray

6. Beyond the Witness
Erin Bell

Part II. Televised History and National Identity

7. Staging Historical Leaders on French Television
Isabelle Veyrat-Masson

8. Landscape and Memory
Emma Hanna

9. Mediated Collective Memory and the Political Process Towards Democracy in Spain
Sira Hernández Corchete

Part III. Televised History, Memory and Identity

10. Television Fiction: A Domain of Memory
Sonja Leeuw

11. Facing the Truth, Pain and Reconciliation
Aileen Blaney

12. Women and War
Margit Rohringer

13. History in Popular Television Drama
Alexander Dhoest

Part IV. History Programming: Form, Genre, Technique

14. ‘I feel completely beautiful for the first time in my life’
Jerome Groot

15. (Re)constructing Biographies
Tobias Ebbrecht

16. Flog It!
Iris Kleinecke-Bates

17. Who Do You Think You Are?
Amy Holdsworth

18. Conclusion
Erin Bell, Ann Gray

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Film History, Cultural History, European History, Modern History, Film and Television Studies, Media Research