ABSTRACT
Even the most casual of television viewers has probably noticed at one time or another that television has a peculiar relationship to-perhaps even an infatuation with-the notion of history. For most of the audience this awareness may remain a vague impression, only dimly acknowledged. But if we push ourselves to consider the question of television and history systematically, focusing on how the medium produces ‘history’ as a conceptual category, it may be possible to theorize the dynamics of this process.
