Ancient Greece on British television /edited by Fiona Hobden and Amanda Wrigley.
Ancient Greece on British television /edited by Fiona Hobden and Amanda Wrigley.
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2018..
- 1 online resource (xiv, 252 pages) : illustrations.
- Screening antiquity .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Broadcasting Greece: an introduction to Greek antiquity on the small screen / Are we the Greeks? understanding antiquity and ourselves in television documentaries / Louis MacNeice and 'The paragins of Hellas': ancient Greece as radio propaganda / The beginnings of Civilisation: television travels to Greece with Mortimer Wheeler and Compton Mackenzie / Tragedy for teens: ancient Greek tragedy on BBC and ITV schools television in the 1960s / The serpent son (1979): a science fiction aesthetic? / Don Taylor, the 'old-fashioned populist'? The Theban plays (1986) and Iphigenia at Aulis (1990): production choices and audience responses / The Odyssey in the 'broom cupboard': Ulysses 31 and Odysseus: The greatest hero of them all on children's BBC, 1985-1986 / Greek myth in the Whoniverse / The digital aesthetic in 'Atlantis: the evidence' (2010) / Greece in the making: from intention to practicalities in television documentaries - a conversation with Michael Scott and David Wilson. Fiona Hobden and Amanda Wrigley -- Fiona Hobden -- Peter Golphin -- John Wyver -- Amanda Wrigley -- Tony Keen -- Lynn Fotheringham -- Sarah Miles -- Amanda Potter -- Anna Foka --
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 10 case studies drawn from feature programmes, educational broadcasts, children's animation, theatre 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.
9781474412605
Historical television programs--Great Britain.
Hellenism.
Electronic Books.
PN1992 / .A535 2018
Includes bibliographies and index.
Broadcasting Greece: an introduction to Greek antiquity on the small screen / Are we the Greeks? understanding antiquity and ourselves in television documentaries / Louis MacNeice and 'The paragins of Hellas': ancient Greece as radio propaganda / The beginnings of Civilisation: television travels to Greece with Mortimer Wheeler and Compton Mackenzie / Tragedy for teens: ancient Greek tragedy on BBC and ITV schools television in the 1960s / The serpent son (1979): a science fiction aesthetic? / Don Taylor, the 'old-fashioned populist'? The Theban plays (1986) and Iphigenia at Aulis (1990): production choices and audience responses / The Odyssey in the 'broom cupboard': Ulysses 31 and Odysseus: The greatest hero of them all on children's BBC, 1985-1986 / Greek myth in the Whoniverse / The digital aesthetic in 'Atlantis: the evidence' (2010) / Greece in the making: from intention to practicalities in television documentaries - a conversation with Michael Scott and David Wilson. Fiona Hobden and Amanda Wrigley -- Fiona Hobden -- Peter Golphin -- John Wyver -- Amanda Wrigley -- Tony Keen -- Lynn Fotheringham -- Sarah Miles -- Amanda Potter -- Anna Foka --
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 10 case studies drawn from feature programmes, educational broadcasts, children's animation, theatre 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.
9781474412605
Historical television programs--Great Britain.
Hellenism.
Electronic Books.
PN1992 / .A535 2018