A new genre for television?
Creativity in historical drama documentary
By Justin Hardy
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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