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Author Hanna, Emma.

Title The Great War on the small screen : representing the First World War in contemporary Britain / Emma Hanna.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 190 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-179) and index.
Includes filmography (pages 173-174).
Contents An unhealed wound : Britain and the First World War -- A monumental monument : The Great War (BBC, 1964) -- Survivors : veterans and the nature of personal testimony -- Heroes and villains -- Drama, comedy and drama documentary -- Over the top : reality experiential television -- The fear of forgetting.
Summary 'The Great War on the Small Screen' explores the relationship between the factual history of the First World War and its popular memory.
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Subject World War (1914-1918)
World War, 1914-1918 -- Television and the war.
War and television.
Historical television programs -- Great Britain.
Historical television programs.
Great Britain.
Documentary television programs -- Great Britain.
Documentary television programs.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Historiography.
Historiography.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Historiography.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1964-2008
1914-1918
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Hanna, Emma. Great War on the small screen. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2009 9780748633890 (DLC) 2009675401 (OCoLC)320799246
ISBN 9780748633906 (electronic book)
0748633901 (electronic book)
9780748633890 (hardback)
0748633898 (hardback)