Television Histories : Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age

by Edgerton, Gary R.; Rollins, Peter C.

• ISBN13: 9780813121901
• ISBN10: 0813121906
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky

Summary

From Ken Burns's documentaries to the historical drama Roots, from AandE's Biography series to CNN's coverage of such events as the Gulf War and the fall of the Berlin Wall, television has become the primary source for historical information for tens of millions of Americans today.

Author Biography

Gary R. Edgerton, professor and chair of the Communication and Theatre Arts Department at Old Dominion University Peter C. Rollins, Regents Professor of English at Oklahoma State University

Table of Contents

Introduction: Television as Historian: A Different Kind of History Altogether	1	(18)
Gray R. Edgerton
Part I: Prime-Time Entertainment Programming as Historian
History TV and Popular Memory	19	(18)
Steve Anderson
Masculinity and Femininity in Television's Historical Fictions: Young Indian Jones Chronicles and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman	37	(22)
Mimi White
Quantum Leap: The Postmodern Challenge of Television as History	59	(20)
Robert Hanke
Profiles in Courage: Television History on the New Frontier	79	(24)
Daniel Marcus
Part II: The Television Documentary as Historian
Victory at Sea: Cold War Epic	103	(20)
Peter C. Rollins
Breaking the Mirror: Dutch Television and the History of the Second World War	123	(20)
Chris Vos
Contested Public Memories: Hawaiian History as Hawaiian or Americian Experience	143	(26)
Carolyn Anderson
Mediating Thomas Jefferson: Ken Burns as Popular Historian	169	(24)
Gary R. Edgerton
Part III: TV News and Public Affairs Programming as Historian
Pixies: Homosexuality, Anti-Communism, and the Army-McCarthy Hearings	193	(14)
Thomas Doberty
Images of History in Israel Television News: The Territorial Dimension of Collective Memories, 1987-1990	207	(23)
Netta Ha-Ilan
Memories of 1945 and 1963: American Television Coverage of the End of the Berlin Wall, November 9, 1989	230	(14)
David Culbert
Television: The First Flawed Rough Drafts of History	244	(17)
Philip M. Taylor
Part IV: Television Production, Reception, and History
The History Channel and the Challenge of Historical Programming	261	(21)
Brain Taves
Rethinking Television History	282	(27)
Douglas Gomery
Nice Guys Last Fifteen Seasons: Jack Benny on Television, 1950-1965	309	(26)
James L. Baughman
Organizing Difference on Global TV: Television History and Cultural Geography	335	(22)
Michael Cuttin
Selected Bibliography: Additional Sources for Researching Television as Historian	357	(9)
Kathryn Helgesen Fuller-Seeley
Contributors	366	(4)
Television and Film Index	370	(6)
General Index	376