A European Television History

European Television History brings together television historians and media scholars to chart the development of television in Europe since its inception. The volume interrogates the history of the medium in divergent political, economic, cultural and ideological national contexts taking a comparative approach to the topic, the volume is organized around a set of common questions, themes, and methodological reflections deals with European television in the context of television historiography and transnational traditions case study chapters written by scholars from different European countries to reflect their specific areas of expertise

Jonathan Bignell is Professor of Television and Film at the University of Reading (UK).

Andreas Fickers is Assistant Professor for Television History at the University of Utrecht (NL).

List of Contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction: Comparative European Perspectives on Television History	p. 1
Early TV: Imagining and Realising Television	p. 55
Institutionalising European Television: The Shaping of European Television Institutions and Infrastructures	p. 79
Searching for an Identity for Television: Programmes, Genres, Formats	p. 101
TV Nations or Global Medium? European Television Between National Institution and Window on the World	p. 127
American Television: Point of References or European Nightmare?	p. 154
European Television Events and Euro-visions: Tensions between the Ordinary and the Extraordinary	p. 184
European Television Audiences: Localising the Viewers	p. 215
Conclusion: Reflections on Doing European Television History	p. 229
European Television Archives and the Search for Audiovisual Sources	p. 257
Index	p. 264
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