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Ancient Greece on British television /

Ancient Greece has inspired television producers and captivated viewing audiences in the United Kingdom for over half a century. Through 10 case studies drawn from television drama, theatre, animation and documentary this collection offers wide-ranging insights into the significance of ancient Greec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hobden, Fiona (Editor ), Wrigley, Amanda (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
Colección:Screening antiquity.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.