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.
The book presents the dramatised history documentaries aired by British public service broadcasters in the 2000s constitute a televisual genre in their own right, offering insights from key BBC and Channel 4 personnel.
Introduction
1 2000: Emergence of a new kind of history television for
the millennium
2 20002002: From vignettes to fuller dramatization
3 1960s1990s: Looking for Progenitors
4 20012003: Was the flowering of dramatised history
documentary led by auteurs?
5 20032005: Working towards fuller dramatisation and a
new genre?
6 20062008: Confirming a new genre
7 20082010: Decline and Fall of a Genre
Conclusion
Index -- .
Justin Hardy is a practicing film/TV director and Lecturer in Public History and Media at UCL and Oxford -- .
