TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cannadine,David
ED  - University of London.
TI  - History and the media
SN  - 1403920370 (hbk.) :
AV  - P96.H55 H57 2004
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - History in mass media
N1  - Based on lectures delivered and sessions held at a conference held in London in December 2002, organized by the Institute of Historical Research; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - History is everywhere in the media. Television viewers can spend every evening watching a different historian expound upon Empire, Witchcraft, the Civil War or Royal Mistresses or go to the cinema and watch reconstructions of the Second World War, American Civil War or Imperial China. Even current affairs reporting on television, radio or in newspapers implicitly or explicitly includes historical explanations. This book examines the boom in history in television and film, newspapers and radio and the constraints and opportunities it offers. Leading historians and high profile broadcasters, such as Melvyn Bragg, Simon Schama, Tristram Hunt, Ian Kershaw and David Puttnam, drawn on their personal experiences to explore the problems and highlights of representing history in the media. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc
ER  -