Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Broadcasting Greece: An Introduction to Greek Antiquity on the Small Screen
- 1 Are We the Greeks? Understanding Antiquity and Ourselves in Television Documentaries
- 2 Louis MacNeice and ‘The Paragons of Hellas’: Ancient Greece as Radio Propaganda
- 3 The Beginnings of Civilisation: Television Travels to Greece with Mortimer Wheeler and Compton Mackenzie
- 4 Tragedy for Teens: Ancient Greek Tragedy on BBC and ITV Schools Television in the 1960s
- 5 The Serpent Son (1979): A Science Fiction Aesthetic?
- 6 Don Taylor, the ‘Old-Fashioned Populist’? The Theban Plays (1986) and Iphigenia at Aulis (1990): Production Choices and Audience Responses
- 7 The Odyssey in the ‘Broom Cupboard’: Ulysses 31 and Odysseus: The Greatest Hero of Them All on Children’s BBC, 1985–1986
- 8 Greek Myth in the Whoniverse
- 9 The Digital Aesthetic in ‘Atlantis: The Evidence’ (2010)
- 10 Greece in the Making: From Intention to Practicalities in Television Documentaries. A Conversation with Michael Scott and David Wilson
- Bibliography
- Index
Abbreviations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 April 2021
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Broadcasting Greece: An Introduction to Greek Antiquity on the Small Screen
- 1 Are We the Greeks? Understanding Antiquity and Ourselves in Television Documentaries
- 2 Louis MacNeice and ‘The Paragons of Hellas’: Ancient Greece as Radio Propaganda
- 3 The Beginnings of Civilisation: Television Travels to Greece with Mortimer Wheeler and Compton Mackenzie
- 4 Tragedy for Teens: Ancient Greek Tragedy on BBC and ITV Schools Television in the 1960s
- 5 The Serpent Son (1979): A Science Fiction Aesthetic?
- 6 Don Taylor, the ‘Old-Fashioned Populist’? The Theban Plays (1986) and Iphigenia at Aulis (1990): Production Choices and Audience Responses
- 7 The Odyssey in the ‘Broom Cupboard’: Ulysses 31 and Odysseus: The Greatest Hero of Them All on Children’s BBC, 1985–1986
- 8 Greek Myth in the Whoniverse
- 9 The Digital Aesthetic in ‘Atlantis: The Evidence’ (2010)
- 10 Greece in the Making: From Intention to Practicalities in Television Documentaries. A Conversation with Michael Scott and David Wilson
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Ancient Greece on British Television , pp. xv - xviPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2018