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This book explores docudrama as a creative response to troubled times. With generic characteristics formed via traditions in theatre as well as film, and with claims to fact underscored by investigative journalism, television docudrama examines key events and personalities in unfolding national histories. Post-Fall of the Berlin Wall, docudrama has become a means for nations to work through traumatic experiences both within national borders and Europe-wide. In this regard, it is an important genre for television networks as they attempt to make sense of complex current events. These authors offer a template for further study and point towards ways in which European television cultures, beyond those discussed here, might be considered in the future.

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Author:   Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann ,  Derek Paget
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781349698622

ISBN 10:   1349698628
Pages:   285
Publication Date:   15 November 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: A New Europe, the Post-Documentary Turn and Docudrama. Derek Paget.- 1. German Docudrama: Aligning the Fragments and Accessing the Past. Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann.- 2. Polish Docudrama: Finding a Balance between Difficult and Easy Pleasures. Wieslaw Godzic.- 3. Italian Docudrama: From the Experimental Moment to Biography as Text of Identity. Milly Buonanno.- 4. French Docudrama: 'Patrimony Television' and 'Embedded Biopic'. Georges Fournier.- 5. Spanish Docudrama: Of Heroes and Celebrities. Victoria Pastor-Gonzalez.- 6. Swedish Docudrama: In the Borderlands of Fact and Fiction. Asa Bergstroem.- 7. British Docudrama: New Directions in Reflexivity. David Rolinson.- Conclusion: 'Unity in Diversity'? Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann.- Filmography.- Bibliography.

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Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann is Lecturer in Film and German Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Formerly a teaching assistant at Filmuniversity Babelsberg KONRAD WOLFF and post-doctoral research assistant at Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany, he is author of several books and articles on film, media and memory. Derek Paget is the author of True Stories?: Documentary drama on Radio, Screen and Stage (1990) and No Other Way To Tell It: Docudrama on Film and Television (2nd edition, 2011). He is a member of Studies of Theatre and Performance's Editorial Board and an Associate Editor of Studies in Documentary Film.

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