Ancient Greece on British television /
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 rela...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Screening antiquity.
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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.