What Questions Need to Be Asked about the History of the BBC?

The BBC produced, between 1922 and 1995, over a million hours of programmes. In the face of such a massive corpus, strategies for understanding and recounting BBC history are necessarily challenging, and there is a real danger of being satisfied with a simplified, institutional, top-down approach. T...

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出版年:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/rfcb,
第一著者: Mullen, John
フォーマット: Article ou chapitre numérique
言語:Anglais
出版事項: Revue française de civilisation britannique 2020
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オンライン・アクセス:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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要約:The BBC produced, between 1922 and 1995, over a million hours of programmes. In the face of such a massive corpus, strategies for understanding and recounting BBC history are necessarily challenging, and there is a real danger of being satisfied with a simplified, institutional, top-down approach. This contribution takes us on a tour of different currents of historical and cultural research to suggest some particularly fruitful questions about the history of the BBC, among the huge panorama of possible interrogations.