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A new genre for television?

By Justin Hardy

A new genre for television? Film, Art & Culture

A new genre for television?

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A new genre for television? challenges the notion that the dramatised history documentaries aired by British public service broadcasters in the 2000s were mere hybrids or experimental outliers and instead demonstrates that they formed a televisual genre in their own right.

Grounded in genre theory, Hardy charts the genre's meteoric rise, creative peak and eventual decline, all the while revealing the institutional dynamics that shaped its development. Offering a fresh and essential distinction between docudramas and drama documentaries, the book contributes to television history with exclusive interviews from key BBC and Channel 4 figures, many of whom have never been publicly interviewed before.

Analysing landmark programs, this book illustrates how these New History Drama Documentaries reshaped historical storytelling on screen by way of the new analytical framework of 'sense' and 'sensuousness', and imagines a model for how national histories might be told compellingly through screen in the future.
Product details
Number of Pages:
228
Release Date:
2025-05-27
Publication Date:
2025-05-27
Publisher:
Manchester University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1526179539
ISBN13:
9781526179531
Weight:
511 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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