LEADER 03951nam 2200361zu 450 001 9910978373903321 005 20260210201227.0 010 $a9781912482412 010 $a191248241X 035 $a(CKB)37465656100041 035 $a(IL-JeEL)9937465656100041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937465656100041 100 $a20250209|2024uuuu || | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aScreening the fleet $ethe Royal Navy on television 1973?2023/$fJonathan Rayner 210 1$aHeslington:$cWhite Rose University Press,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource 311 08$a9781912482405 311 08$a1912482401 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages) and index. 327 $tChapter 1. The 1970s Warship versus Sailor$tWarship 1973?77$tSeries 1 1973$tSeries 2 1974$tSailor$tConclusion$tChapter 2. Image and Identity Sea Power and Submarine$tSea Power$tSubmarine$tHMS Splendid 1999$tConclusion crisis and identity$tChapter 3. The Naval Drama Series Making Waves$tA new Warship?$tPlots and prerequisites$tMaking Waves the aired and unaired episodes$tSea Patrol the most successful naval drama$tConclusion barely a ripple$tChapter 4. Techno-documentaries of the New Navy$tDaring to bare Building Britain?s Ultimate Warship$tLearning again How to Build? a Nuclear Submarine BBC2 2010$tConclusion$tChapter 5. The Home Fleet Channel 5?s Warship Series$tWarship series 1 and 2 2008?09$tIce Patrol 2010 tedium trivia tragedy$tWarship Life at Sea series 1?3 2018?22$tConclusion from hybridisation to tabloidization$tChapter 6. Different Eyes Chris Terrill?s Naval Documentaries$tConclusion$tBibliography$tIndex. 330 $aIn Screening the Fleet, Prof. Jonathan Rayner explores the representation of the modern Royal Navy on British television over a fifty year period from 1973 to 2023. Contextualising his subject with significant aspects of earlier naval representation, in recruiting, documentary and public information films from the 1940s to the 1960s, Rayner then brings his focus forward to 1973-2023.The 1970s were a significant decade for naval representation on television, and saw the broadcast of two definitive series: the BBC?s drama series Warship and the acclaimed documentary series Sailor. These landmark series set the benchmark for naval representation in both realist and in fictional portrayals. They also set precedents for audience perceptions, and these have affected the production, and the reception, of the series on the Royal Navy that have followed.Rayner?s work investigates how advances in technology allow programme makers to use new techniques in the spheres of naval drama and documentary. More recent series also need to balance the required conventions for any portrayal of the navy on television with the revelatory or iconoclastic approaches now expected by modern audiences.In focussing on the changing portrayal of the Royal Navy on television, however, Rayner also surfaces how the Navy itself has evolved in the post-World War II world. The series analysed in Screening the Fleet also evidence the changing nature and increasing diversity of the naval community as a reflection of changing notions of Britishness.Offering the first study of its type, this volume highlights evolving and emerging trends in factual and fact-based television programmes through their portrayal of a highly popular, patriotic and persistent subject over a fifty year period. It debates developments in television and documentary approaches using the representation of the Royal Navy, and its changing position in perceptions of British identity. 606 $aTelevision programs$zGreat Britain 615 0$aTelevision programs 700 $aRayner$b Jonathan$0921543 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910978373903321 996 $aScreening the Fleet$94319972 997 $aUNINA