ABSTRACT
Bringing together a team of history and media researchers from across Britain and Europe, this volume provides readers with a themed discussion of the range and variety of the media’s engagement with history, and a close study of the relationship between media, history and national identity.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |20 pages
Recreating ‘History' on Film
Stalin and the Russian Revolution in feature film, 1937–39
chapter |13 pages
‘The Same Old Firm Dressed Up in a New Suit'
Blue Scar (Craigie, 1949) and the portrayal of the nationalization of the coal industry
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chapter |20 pages
‘I Wondered Who'd Be the First to Spot that'
Dad's Army at war, in the media and in memory
chapter |14 pages
History, Public Memory and Media Event
Codes and conventions of historical event-television in Germany
