Screening Twentieth Century Europe: Television, History, Memory

Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Figures
1 Introduction: Mediating European History
	Our Embodied Mind and Mediated Cultural Encounters
	An Age of Extremes
	At the Dawn of a New Century
	Historical Views of Europe in the Twentieth Century
	History in Our Culture and Minds: Historical Genres, Mediated Cultural Encounters
	Screening Twentieth-Century Europe: Outline of the Book
	References
2 History as Mediated and Embodied Narratives
	Mediating History: National and Transnational Dimensions
	History and Our Narrative Mind
	History and Memory
	Historical Narratives and the Psychological and Cultural Dimensions of Reception
	Memory: Social and Subjective Dimensions
	References
3 Historical Genres on Television: The Broader European Picture
	Basic Historical Genres
	Impact and Importance of Historical Fiction and Docudrama
	Frozen Cultures: Historical Drama in Eastern Europe
	Challenged Democracies: Southern Europe
	Creative Encounters and Structures of Co-production: Western and Northern Europe
	Imagining and Narrating Twentieth-Century Europe: Focus and Perspectives
	References
4 The Meaning of Small Things: Everyday Drama and History from Below
	The Embodiment of History
	Heimat: A Reflexive and Symbolic Narrative of Everyday Life
	Heimat 1: A Symbolic and Realist Story of Home and the World Beyond
	Reitz and the Visual and Narrative Language of Memory
	The Village: The English Heimat Series with a Difference
	Gender, Class, Sex and the Roaring Twenties
	Everyday Drama: Impact, Reception and the Dimensions of Memory
	References
5 History from Above: Historical Biopics
	German Biopics: The Bad and the Good Characters
	Biopics as Multi-Layered Docudrama: The Case of Heinrich Breloer
	The Complex Cultural, Historical Biopic: Breloer and the Mann Family
	The Crown: An Intense Story of Queendom and Personal Freedom
	The Crown: A Story of the Transformation of Post-War Britain
	The Crown: A Story of Everyday Life and Mediated Politics
	Lived Lives, Living History: Biopics and Historical Debate
	References
6 Grand Illusions and the Great War:  World War I Narratives
	The End of an Era: British and German Period Dramas
	War and the Changing Map of Europe
	Realities and Memories
	First World War Documentaries: Memories, Experiences and Factual Narratives
	Documentary War Narratives: Multiple Voices and Narrative Strategies
	German and Transnational European War Documentaries
	British War Period Drama
	Parade’s End: Heritage Toryism and Cloud-Cuckoo Land
	A War that Changed Europe Forever
	References
7 Living on the Edge: The Roaring Twenties and World Crisis
	Fragile Democracies and Radicalized Political Cultures
	Singing and Dancing on the Volcano: Life in the 1920s
	Documenting the Past Through Personal European Stories: Clash of Futures as Transnational Memory Drama
	The Weimar Years: Crisis, Political Chaos and the Cultural Avant-Garde
	German Noir: Babylon Berlin as Period and Crime Drama
	Between Two Wars: Class and Culture in British Period Drama
	Down Dark and Sunny Lanes: Dennis Potter, Realism and Dreams of Popular Culture
	The Stuff that Dreams Are Made of: The Imaginary and Enchanting Dimension
	A Creative, Chaotic, Violent and Divisive Period
	References
8 Hell on Earth: World War II Narratives
	The Most Mediated War in Modern European History
	World War II Documentaries: Explanation, Imagination and Narrative
	World War II and Popular British Fiction Series
	Memory, Guilt and German Docudramas
	A New Generation of German War Drama
	Beneath a Frozen Past: Moral Complexities and the German War Generation
	World War II as European War: Mediated Transnational Cultural Encounters and Memories
	References
9 Post-war Europe: A Social and Cultural Revolution
	Better Times: Welfare Societies and Cultural Revolution
	Living on a Thin Line Between Germany East and West
	Dancing in Berlin: Mothers, Daughters and a New Way of Life
	Leaving Heimat: Reitz’s Story of the Youth Revolution in Germany
	The Complicated Way Back Home: Negotiating the Past and a New Present
	Social and Cultural Dynamics in British Post-war Period Dramas
	Tradition and Change: British Generational Period Drama
	The Changing World of Women: Call the Midwife and the Post-war Social Revolution
	A Changing Europe? Dreams and Realities
	References
10 Europe 1989 and Beyond: Towards a New Millennium
	Coming to Terms with the Post-1989 German Past: Memories and Realities
	Reitz’s Heimat 3: A Chronicle About the Change of a Century
	Dreams and Realities of Unification
	A Unification Symphony in Many Parts and with Many Voices
	The New Millennium: Symbolism and the Dialectic of Past and Present
	Rough Realism and Dystopian Narratives: British Post-1989 Narratives
	Reality or Nothing: Dennis Potter’s Dystopian Far Future Look at the Past
	Between Utopia and Dystopia: Post-1989 Europe
	References
11 Conclusion: History on Our Minds and the Forms of Mediated History
	Mediated Cultural Encounters, History and Memory
	Historical Genres and Twentieth-Century History
	The Past in the Present
	Quo Vadis Europe? the Twentieth Century and Beyond
	References
Index