A new book, co-edited by myself and Laura Mee, is now available for pre-order. Cinema, Television and History: New Approaches features essays based on papers delivered at the conference Rethinking Cinema and Television History, held at De Montfort University in April 2012.
The book can be pre-ordered at this link. The table of contents is below: Introduction 1 Cinema, Television and History Laura Mee and Johnny Walker Part I: New Meanings, New Methods Chapter One 12 TV and Cinema: What Forms of History Do We Need? John Ellis Part II: Recontextualising Cinema and Television History Chapter Two 26 “We Must Go About it in Our Own Way and Have Complete Control”: The British Film Industry and the Metropolitan Police Press Bureau, 1919-1938 Alex Rock Chapter Three 47 From Cathy “Queen of the Mods” to Paula “Pop Princess”: Women, Music Television and Adolescent Female Identity Hazel Collie Chapter Four 67 The Polish TV Fictionscape: From Programme Importation to Domestic Revival Sylwia Szostak Chapter Five 85 Maintaining a Critical Eye: The Political Avant-garde on Channel 4 in the 1990s Steve Presence Part III: Rethinking Histories of Cinema and Television Chapter Six 104 “These People Are the Enemy!”: The Moral Responsibilities of Film and Television History within the Humanities Dieter Declercq Chapter Seven 121 The Trans/national Divide: Towards a Typology of “Transatlantic British Cinema” During the 1930s and 1940s Nathan Townsend Chapter Eight 142 “Marvellous, Awesome, True-to-life, Epoch-making, a New Dimension”: Reconsidering the Early History of Colour Television in Britain Helen Wheatley Part IV: Rethinking History through Cinema and Television Chapter Nine 164 Known Pleasures: Nostalgia and Joy Division Mythology in 24 Hour Party People and Control Caitlin Shaw Chapter Ten 182 “Media Virgins vs. Political Lions”: Historicising the Gender Politics of Question Time Jilly Boyce Kay Chapter Eleven 200 Rethinking History through Documentary: Paradise Lost and the Documented Case of “The West Memphis Three” Thomas Joseph Watson Part V: The Impact of New Technologies Chapter Twelve 222 DVDs, Streams, Comment Threads and Developing a Television Canon Abby Waysdorf Chapter Thirteen 239 Using Social Media to Build Hidden Screen Histories: A Case Study of the Pebble Mill Project Vanessa Jackson Chapter Fourteen 260 Historical Subjectivity and Film Style: Re-enactment and Digital Technologies in Contemporary Historical Cinema Adam Gallimore
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
Archives
October 2021
Categories |