Posts Tagged ‘ historical TV ’

Mediating the Past: JFK and the Docudrama

November 22, 2013
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Mediating the Past: JFK and the Docudrama

On the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination, this post considers how fictional depictions of Kennedy represent history and engage cultural memory.
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Midwifes and Melodrama: Call the Midwife & PBS

November 22, 2012
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Midwifes and Melodrama: Call the Midwife & PBS

PBS perhaps hoped that BBC1’s Call the Midwife could be their next big hit, following on from the success of ITV1’s Downton Abbey. Faye Woods contemplates the significance of Call the Midwife's inability to match Downton Abbey's ratings and buzz in the US.
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Mediating the Past: Treme and the Stories of the Storm

November 14, 2012
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Mediating the Past: Treme and the Stories of the Storm

Treme does not simply revisit a post-Katrina sequence of events. It tracks the mediated versions of them, underlining, commenting and critiquing previous formulations, re-inventing the story and becoming part it.
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