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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.
Price: £25.00
Pages: 232
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publication Date:
19 January 2027
ISBN: 9781807072469
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
Justin Hardy is a lecturer in screenwriting at BA Media, UCL
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