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A new genre for television?

Creativity in historical drama documentary

By Justin Hardy

A new genre for television?
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  • ISBN: 9781526179531
  • Publish Date: May 2025
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
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    • Format: Hardcover
    • Pages: 256
    • Price: £85.00
    • Published Date: May 2025

    Description

    In A New Genre for Television?, filmmaker Justin Hardy argues the dramatised history documentaries broadcast by British public service channels in the 2000s constituted a distinct television genre. Offering a vital distinction between docudramas and drama documentaries, Hardy contributes to the field of television history through exclusive interviews with key figures from BBC and Channel 4 - many of whom have never been publicly interviewed before - and envisions a future model for the portrayal of national histories on screen.

    Contents

    Introduction
    1 2000: Emergence of a new kind of history television for the millennium
    2 2000-2002: From vignettes to fuller dramatization
    3 1960s-1990s: Looking for Progenitors
    4 2001-2003: Was the flowering of dramatised history documentary led by auteurs?
    5 2003-2005: Working towards fuller dramatisation and a new genre?
    6 2006-2008: Confirming a new genre
    7 2008-2010: Decline and Fall of a Genre
    Conclusion
    Index

    Author

    Justin Hardy is a practicing film/TV director and Lecturer in Public History and Media at UCL and Oxford

    A new genre for television?

    By Justin Hardy

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