Remembering Dennis Potter Through Fans, Extras and Archives

Remembering Dennis Potter Through Fans, Extras and Archives is the first book to address a key figure from film or television from this multi-directional perspective. The memories produced by fans, extras and production archives become pivotal to media heritage. These personal and production memories are unique within screen history and offer scholars of television, media history, sociology, drama, regional studies, museology and heritage management a valuable insight into how members of the public provide institutions with deep and affective responses to media as heritage. The role of 'personal memory' in the production of television heritage is a new and exciting addition to our understanding of how TV was made.

Joanne Garde-Hansen is Associate Professor of Culture, Media and Communication at the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, University of Warwick, UK. She has published Save As…Digital Memories (with Hoskins and Reading, 2009), Media and Memory (2011), Geography and Memory (with Jones, 2012) and Emotion Online (with Gorton, 2013). She is involved in media and memory projects in the UK and more recently in Brazil.

Hannah Grist is currently completing her PhD at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. Her interdisciplinary research across media studies, heritage, archival studies and memory studies explores media as cultural heritage. Her empirical research has been examining how Dennis Potter's legacy is managed in the heritage environment through the return of the archive.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface by Melvyn Bragg
Introduction: Television as Heritage
1. Potted Potter: The Impact of Dennis Potter Locally, Nationally and Internationally
2. Archiving Potter: Memory and Television Production
3. Potter's Extras: Below the Line Production Memories
4. Potter's Fans: From Hyperlocal to International Fandom
Conclusion: Economies of Remembering Television
References
Index