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This programme examines images of the past which television produces at Christmastide, and their popular significance. Using illustrative excerpts from three BBC TV documentaries about Christmas fo...od, Christmas in a rural community and Christmas through each decade of this century in Britain, the programme looks at the idealisation of the past and how Christmas traditions are constructed and circulated therein.
This programme examines images of the past which television produces at Christmastide, and their popular significance. Using illustrative excerpts from three BBC TV documentaries about Christmas fo...od, Christmas in a rural community and Christmas through each decade of this century in Britain, the programme looks at the idealisation of the past and how Christmas traditions are constructed and circulated therein.
| Module code and title: | U203, Popular culture |
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| Item code: | U203; 02 |
| First transmission date: | 01-05-1982 |
| Published: | 1982 |
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| Duration: | 00:22:55 |
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| Producer: | Victor Lockwood |
| Contributor: | Tony Bennett |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Christmas; Religious celebrations; Television |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/73645 |
| Production number: | FOUP066Y |
| Videofinder number: | 1221 |
| Available to public: | no |
