Television Histories: Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age By Gary R. Edgerton, Peter C. Rollins
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky 2001-05 | 383 Pages | ISBN: 0813121906 ; 0813190568 | PDF | 15.8 MB
From Ken Burns's documentaries to historical dramas such as Roots, from A&E's Biography series to CNN's coverage of such events as the fall of the Berlin Wall, television has become the primary source for historical information for tens of millions of Americans today. Why has television become such a respected authority? What falsehoods enter our collective memory as truths? How is one to know what is real and what is imagined - or ignored - by producers, directors, or writers? Gary Edgerton and Peter Rollins have collected a group of essays that answer these and many other questions…