| History TV Contributor(s): Perlman, Allison (Author) |
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ISBN: 113892850X ISBN-13: 9781138928503 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2025 This item may be ordered no more than 25 days prior to its publication date of December 31, 2025 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Series: Routledge Television Guidebooks |
| Physical Information: 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This guidebook offers a critical introduction to history TV. Allison Perlman provides an accessible and engaging model to unpack the meanings of "history" and "TV," and explores topics that include documentary, the mini-series, network branding, and reality TV. Through fictional and non-fictional programming as diverse as Quantum Leap, Ken Burns' Baseball, Frontier House, and Mad Men, Perlman's book emphasizes how history TV shows are both sites of cultural memory and components of television networks' industrial strategies, fusing the ethics and politics of popular history with the narrative structure and genre elements of televisual formats. |