Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-365) and indexes.
Contents:
History TV and popular memory / Steve Anderson -- Masculinity and femininity in television's historical fictions: Young Indiana Jones chronicles and Dr. Quinn, medicine woman / Mimi White -- Quantum leap: the postmodern challenge of television as history / Robert Hanke -- Profiles in courage: televisual history on the new frontier / Daniel Marcus -- Victory at sea: Cold War epic / Peter C. Rollins -- Breaking the mirror: Dutch television and the history of the Second World War / Chris Vos -- Contested public memories: Hawaiian history as Hawaiian or American experience / Carolyn Anderson -- Mediating Thomas Jefferson: Ken Burns as popular historian / Gary R. Edgerton -- Pixies: homosexuality, anti-communism, and the Army-McCarthy hearings / Thomas Doherty -- Images of history in Israel television news: the territorial dimension of collective memories, 1987-1990 / Netta Ha-Ilan -- Memories of 1945 and 1963: American television coverage of the end of the Berlin Wall, November 9, 1989 / David Culbert -- Television: the first flawed rough drafts of history / Philip M. Taylor -- The History Channel and the challenge of historical programming / Brian Taves -- Rethinking television history / Douglas Gomery -- Nice guys last fifteen seasons: Jack Benny on television, 1950-1965 / James L. Baughman -- Organizing difference on global TV: television history and cultural geography / Michael Curtin -- Selected bibliography: additional sources for researching television as historian / Kathryn Helgesen Fuller-Seely.
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