ID - 349770 TI - The Great War on the small screen : representing the First World War in contemporary Britain PY - 2009 SN - 9780748633890 9780748633906 0748633901 0748633898 1282620185 9781282620186 9786612620188 6612620188 074867117X PB - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, DB - UniCat KW - World history KW - Mass communications KW - anno 1910-1919 KW - Great Britain KW - 791.43 <41> KW - 791.43-24 KW - 940.3 KW - Filmkunst. Films. Cinema--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittanniƫ en Noord-Ierland KW - Historische films KW - Geschiedenis van Europa: Eerste Wereldoorlog--(1914-1919) (algemeen) KW - 940.3 Geschiedenis van Europa: Eerste Wereldoorlog--(1914-1919) (algemeen) KW - 791.43-24 Historische films KW - 791.43 <41> Filmkunst. Films. Cinema--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittanniƫ en Noord-Ierland KW - Documentary television programs KW - Historical television programs KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - European War, 1914-1918 KW - First World War, 1914-1918 KW - Great War, 1914-1918 KW - World War 1, 1914-1918 KW - World War I, 1914-1918 KW - World War One, 1914-1918 KW - WW I (World War, 1914-1918) KW - WWI (World War, 1914-1918) KW - History, Modern KW - History television programs KW - Television historical programs KW - Television programs KW - Documentaries, Television KW - Documentary programs, Television KW - Telementaries KW - Television documentaries KW - Television documentary programs KW - Documentary mass media KW - Nonfiction television programs KW - Historiography KW - Television and the war KW - Television and the war. KW - Historiography. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:349770 AB - In Britain since the 1960s television has been the most influential medium of popular culture. Television is also the site where the Western Front of popular culture clashes with the Western Front of history. This book examines the ways in which those involved in the production of historical documentaries for this most influential media have struggled to communicate the stories of the First World War to British audiences. Documents in the BBC Written Archives Centre at Caversham, Berkshire, the Imperial War Museum, and the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives all inform the analysis. Interviews and correspondence with television producers, scriptwriters and production crew, as well as two First World War veterans who appeared in several recent documentaries provide new insights for the reader. Emma Hanna takes the reader behind the scenes of the making of the most influential documentaries from the landmark epic series The Great War (BBC, 1964) up to more recent controversial productions such as The Trench (BBC, 2002) and Not Forgotten: The Men Who Wouldn't Fight (BBC, 2008). By examining the production, broadcast and reception of a number of British television documentaries this book examines the difficult relationship between the war's history and its popular memory. ER -