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Publication Date: 1987
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If Scholars Are to Produce Powerful, Serious Television, They May Have to Resort to Purple Prose--Even Hokum.
Rabb, Theodore K.
Chronicle of Higher Education, v34 n6 pB1,3 Oct 7 1987
There is a fundamental division of purpose between scholarship and television. Academics deal in nuances, qualifications, and subtle distinctions, while film makers seek broad strokes, drama, and simple, vivid ideas. By accepting that difference, the two can cooperate to make good television that is good history. (MLW)
Descriptors: Authors, Film Production, Films, Higher Education, History, Mass Media, Material Development, Programing (Broadcast), Scholarship, Scripts, Television
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