A Post-Nationalist History of Television in Ireland

• Main Author: Brennan, Edward (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Motion pictures and television.; Great Britain-History.; Historiography.; Screen Studies.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Memory Studies.

This book explores the question of how society has changed with the introduction of private screens. Taking the history of television in Ireland as a case study due to its position at the intersection of British and American media influences, this work argues that, internationally, the transnational...

Table of Contents:

• 1. How Should We Write a History of Television?
• 2. A Dominant Narrative in Irish Television History
• 3. Personal Memory and Social Power
• 4. Making Sense of Television
• 5. Memories of Imported Programmes and International Broadcasts
• 6. Time, Space and Television
• 7. Recollection and Social Status
• 8. Putting the Bishop and the Nightie to Bed
• 9. Personally Remembering the Global. .