Televising History: Mediating the Past in Postwar Europe

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
‘Once Upon a Time …’....Pages 13-27
History on Television....Pages 28-41
Combatting ‘A Message without a Code....Pages 42-58
Contexts of Production....Pages 59-76
Beyond the Witness....Pages 77-92
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Staging Historical Leaders on French Television....Pages 95-106
Landscape and Memory....Pages 107-121
Mediated Collective Memory and the Political Process Towards Democracy in Spain....Pages 122-136
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Television Fiction: A Domain of Memory....Pages 139-151
Facing the Truth, Pain and Reconciliation....Pages 152-164
Women and War....Pages 165-178
History in Popular Television Drama....Pages 179-190
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
‘I feel completely beautiful for the first time in my life’....Pages 193-206
(Re)constructing Biographies....Pages 207-220
Flog It!....Pages 221-233
Who Do You Think You Are?....Pages 234-247
Conclusion....Pages 248-255
Back Matter....Pages 256-269