Winner of the 2001 Ray and Pat Browne National Book Award for
Outstanding Textbook, given by the Popular Culture Association From
Ken Burns's documentaries to historical dramas such as Roots, from
A&E's Biography series to CNN, television has become the
primary source for historical information for tens of millions of
Americans today. Why has television become such a respected
authority? What falsehoods enter our collective memory as truths?
How is one to know what is real and what is imagined -- or ignored
-- by producers, directors, or writers? Gary Edgerton and Peter
Rollins have collected a group of essays that answer these and many
other questions. The contributors examine the full spectrum of
historical genres, but also institutions such as the History
Channel and production histories of such series as The Jack Benny
Show, which ran for fifteen years. The authors explore the tensions
between popular history and professional history, and the tendency
of some academics to declare the past "off limits" to nonscholars.
Several of them point to the tendency for television histories to
embed current concerns and priorities within the past, as in such
popular shows as Quantum Leap and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. The
result is an insightful portrayal of the power television possesses
to influence our culture.
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