Evolution on british television and radio : transmissions and transmutations / / Alexander Hall

• Autore: Hall Alexander
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (292 pages)
• Disciplina: 384.550941
• Soggetto topico: Television broadcasting - Great Britain - History
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- The Evolutionary Epic and Progressive Narratives in Science -- Synthetic Narratives in the History of Biology -- Media Histories and Studies of Science -- Humanist Blockbusters -- Approaches to Studying Media -- Surveying British Broadcasting on Evolution -- Summary of the Argument -- References -- Chapter 2: Situating the Story: The Early Years of Evolution on the Wireless -- The Stream of Life -- Controlling the Content, While Developing the Format(s) -- Post-war Consolidations and Contestations -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Evolving Content for the Small Screen, from Radio to Early Television Formats -- Expanding the Cast -- Constructing an Official Institutional Position on Evolution -- Evolution on the Small Screen -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: The Most Malleable of Minds: Evolution in Educational Broadcasting -- Religious Contestation of Early Educational Radio on Evolution -- A Short History of BBC Educational Broadcasting -- Educating the Grown-Ups -- Televised Educational Output -- Evolution on Adult Education Television -- The BBC and the Open University -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Imagining Evolution: Drama and Science Fiction -- Evolutionary Themes in Early Radio Dramas -- Orwell, Darwin and the Dramatisation of the Past -- Wells, Ethics and Dystopian Futures -- Evolutionary Themes in British Science Fiction Television -- Kneale and Literary British Science Fiction -- Newman and the Rise of the Serial -- Pedler and Techno-Scientific Anxieties -- Counterculture, Doom and Declensionism -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Humanist Blockbusters: Depicting the Evolutionary Epic on Television -- The Ascent of Man -- Producing Ascent -- A Popular Success, the Reception of Ascent. ; Other Popular Depictions of Evolution in the 1970s -- Nigel Calder's The Life Game -- The Ascent of Man's Influence on Metanarratives of Science -- Sledgehammers and Humanist Blockbusters, from Ascent to Life on Earth -- Conclusion: The Humanist Blockbuster Goes Global -- References -- Chapter 7: Creationism and Non-Darwinian Ideology in British Broadcasting -- Limited Airtime for Fundamentalists and Anti-evolutionists -- Non-Darwinian and Post-Darwinian Evolutionary Ideas -- Reporting on US Affairs or Creating Creationists? Creationism at the BBC -- Religious Metaphors on Science Broadcasts -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Remembering or Deifying? The Darwin Anniversaries of 1959 and 2009 -- The Darwin Sesquicentennial Celebrations 1958-1959 -- The Darwin Centenary on Radio and Television -- Refining the Mythic Narrative of Darwin's Life and Influence -- Broadcasting the 2009 Darwin Anniversary, a Reflective Coda -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Evolution on British Television and Radio
• ISBN: 3-030-83043-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910502622903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave studies in science and popular culture.