From Story to Screen: Biography on Television.

Grubin, David

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ERIC Number: EJ554651

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1997

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From Story to Screen: Biography on Television.

Grubin, David

Humanities, v18 n3 p10-13 May-Jun 1997

Presents an insider's view of the process involved in creating award-winning historical, biographical documentaries. Argues that documentary filmmakers and historians share a common mission in presenting as complete and accurate a picture of the past as possible. Maintains that the central difference between the two is in the selection of materials. (MJP)

Descriptors: Biographies, Credibility, Discourse Modes, Documentaries, Historiography, History Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach, Language Arts, Primary Sources, Public Television, Scholarship, Secondary Education, Social Science Research, Social Studies, Television

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Audience: Practitioners; Students; Teachers

Language: English

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