This second edition of 'No other Way To Tell It' defines the form, analyses its codes and conventions, and reviews contrasting histories in America and British practice - taking into account new developments since the first edition.
These include television's radically new ecology; with factual formats a growth area. Docudrama in film has also burgeoned recently, partly because the industries themselves have grown closer and partly because of continued interest in the lives of the famous and of those in the news. International co-production now exploits many different screening...

This second edition of 'No other Way To Tell It' defines the form, analyses its codes and conventions, and reviews contrasting histories in America and British practice - taking into account new developments since the first edition.
These include television's radically new ecology; with factual formats a growth area. Docudrama in film has also burgeoned recently, partly because the industries themselves have grown closer and partly because of continued interest in the lives of the famous and of those in the news. International co-production now exploits many different screening...

The events of September 11th changed the world irreversibly, in ways that have reverberated throughout our cultural and media landscape. "The War on Terror" traces these reverberations through the medium of television, offering analyses of key programs and series that engage with, or are haunted by, the aftermath of September 11 and the war on terror that has followed. Individual chapters examine dramas representing the invasion of Iraq, such as "Occupation "and "Generation Kill"; war comedies, such as "Gary, Tank Commander"; documentaries such as the BBC "Panorama" s coverage of the...