Ancient Greece on British Television

ISBN-13: 9781474412599 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 272 str.

Fiona Hobden; Amanda Wrigley

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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.

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Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Illustrations; Tables; Abbreviations; Chapters; 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 Paragons 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 School 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’, 1985-6, 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, Fiona Hobden ; Bibliography; Endnotes.