Broadcasting historiography and historicality

Screen

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 130-141

  Scannell, Paddy ^a  

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EID: 3142729704     PISSN: 00369543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/screen/45.2.130     Document Type: Review

References (28)

1. Ernst Breisach, Historiography (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1994). This standard work covers both aspects of historiography
2. James Curran, 'Rival narratives of media history', in Media and Power (London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 3-54
3. Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz, Media Events (Cambridge, MA: University of Harvard Press, 1992)
4. See Martin Heidegger, 'Temporality and historicality', in Being and Time (Oxford: Blackwell, 1962), pp. 424-55
5. Two succinct reviews of the much debated issues in the relationship between history, events and narrative are provided by Lawrence Stone, 'The revival of narrative: reflections on a new old history', in The Past and the Present Revisited (Routledge and Kegan Paul: London, 1984), pp. 74-93
6. and Peter Burke, 'History of events and the revival of narrative', in New Perspectives on Historical Writing (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991), pp. 233-48
7. These deal with the topic largely in relation to the writings of historians. It has however become an issue of growing interest in philosophy, literary and social theory in the last forty years. See Geoffrey Roberts (ed.), The History and Narrative Reader (London: Routledge, 2001)
8. This distinction owes much to the seminal essay by Georg Lukacs, 'Narrate or describe', in Writer and Critic (London: Merlin Press, 1978), pp. 111-48
9. 'An approach to the human individual which assigns a primordial importance to the manner in which he expresses his existence to himself in the form of a more or less coherent narrative', Jean Laplanche, 'Narrativity and hermeneutics: some propositions', New Formations, no. 48 (2002-3), p. 26
10. Fernand Braudel, 'History and the social sciences: the longue durée', in On History (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1980), p. 28
11. On this theme, see Heidegger, Being and Time, pp. 279-311
12. Christine Geraghty, 'The continuous serial - a definition', in Richard Dyer et al., Coronation Street, Television Monograph 13 (London: British Film Institute, 1981), pp. 9-26
13. Hobson's excellent study of Crossroads (a British soap that ran from 1964 to 1988, but was recently resurrected and restored briefly to our television screens) is illuminating on the attitudes of actors and the production team to their 'puppet'. Dorothy Hobson, Crossroads: the Drama of a Soap Opera (London: Methuen, 1982)
14. Paddy Scannell and David Cardiff, A Social History of British Broadcasting, Volume I, 1922-1939: Serving the Nation (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991)
15. Jean Francois Lyotard has elegantly defined postmodernism as incredulity towards grand narratives, The Postmodern Condition: a Report on the Condition of Knowledge (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986), pp. xxii-xxiv
16. On the impact of Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind [Geist] on historiography see Breisach, Historiography, pp. 231-2
17. and especially 'The enigma of world history', pp. 395-403
18. John Ellis, Seeing Things (London: IB Tauris, 2002), pp. 74-90
19. Harold Innis, Empire and Communication (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1950)
20. and The Bias of Communication (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1964)
21. The key work is Innis's magnificent 1930 study of The Fur Trade in Canada (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1999)
22. Oswald Spengler The Decline of th West (1918)
23. and Arnold Toynbee, Study of History (1934-9)
24. Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1990), pp. 20-21
25. See Ian Hutchby, 'The communicative affordances of technological artefacts', in Conversation and Technology (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2001), pp. 13-33
26. Hutchby derives his concept from the work of J.J. Gibson on the psychology of perception: The Ecological Approach to Perception (London: Houghton Mifflin, 1979)
27. and Reasons for Realism: Selected Essays (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1982)
28. This phrase is taken from Joshua Meyrowitz, No Sense of Place (New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 1985), p. 6