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  title info:
    title: Ancient Greece on British television
  name:
    name part: Hobden, Fiona
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Wrigley, Amanda
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: stk
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Ancient Greece has inspired television producers and captivated viewing audiences in the United Kingdom for over half a century. By examining how and why political, social and cultural narratives of Greece have been constructed through television's distinctive audiovisual languages, and in relation also to its influential sister-medium radio, this volume explores the nature and function of these public engagements with the written and material remains of the Hellenic past. Through ten case studies drawn from feature programs, educational broadcasts, children's animation, theater play productions, dramatic fiction and documentaries broadcast across the decades, this collection offers wide-ranging insights into the significance of ancient Greece on British television.
  table of contents: Broadcasting Greece: an introduction to Greek antiquity on the small screen / Fiona Hobden and Amanda Wrigley -- 1. Are we the Greeks? understanding antiquity and ourselves in television documentaries / Fiona Hobden -- 2. Louis MacNeice and 'The paragins of Hellas': ancient Greece as radio propaganda / Peter Golphin -- 3. The beginnings of Civilisation: television travels to Greece with Mortimer Wheeler and Compton Mackenzie / John Wyver -- 4. Tragedy for teens: ancient Greek tragedy on BBC and ITV schools television in the 1960s / Amanda Wrigley -- 5. The serpent son (1979): a science fiction aesthetic? / Tony Keen -- 6. Don Taylor, the 'old-fashioned populist'? The Theban plays (1986) and Iphigenia at Aulis (1990): production choices and audience responses / Lynn Fotheringham -- 7. The Odyssey in the 'broom cupboard': Ulysses 31 and Odysseus: The greatest hero of them all on children's BBC, 1985-1986 / Sarah Miles -- 8. Greek myth in the Whoniverse / Amanda Potter -- 9. The digital aesthetic in 'Atlantis: the evidence' (2010) / Anna Foka -- 10. Greece in the making: from intention to practicalities in television documentaries - a conversation with Michael Scott and David Wilson.
  note: edited by Fiona Hobden and Amanda Wrigley.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [224]-245) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Historical television programs
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    topic: Hellenism
  subject:
    geographic: Greece
    topic: Antiquities
    topic: On television
  classification: PN1992.8.H56 A53 2018
  classification: 791
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Screening antiquity
  identifier: 9781474412599
  identifier: 1474412599
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  identifier: 1474412610
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 171124
    record change date: 20181023092848.0
    record identifier: in00004002613