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Ancient Greece on British Television / edited by Fiona Hobden and Amanda Wrigley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hobden, Fiona, Author.
- Series:
- Screening antiquity.
- Screening Antiquity
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historical television programs--Great Britain.
- Historical television programs.
- Greece--Antiquities--On television.
- Greece.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 252 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- 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 Greece on British television.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-4952-2
- 1-4744-1260-2
- 1-4744-1261-0
- OCLC:
- 1306539096
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