THE WORLD AT WAR (BFI TV CLASSICS)
Book ID/图书代码： 08296013B59793
English Summary/英文概要： Forty years after it was first broadcast on ITV, The World at War remains the most influential and renowned history programme ever produced by British television: an examination of the cataclysmic events of the Second World War, featuring archival footage, eyewitness accounts, a powerful narration read by Laurence Olivier, and haunting music by Carl Davis. The twenty-six part series took more than two years, a production team of fifty, and a cost of £800,000, to make (the equivalent to about £12,000,000 today). But the epic scale of its production was more than matched by its impact. Attracting audiences of up to 10,000,000 in 1973, as well as winning a plethora of awards, it has ever since been regularly screened around the world, with sales of VHS and DVD copies making it one of the highest selling factual series.
In this latest BFI TV Classics book, TV producer and writer Taylor Downing takes a critical look at The World at War, exploring, among other things: the style of the series; the ethos of the series to tell the story of ordinary people caught up in the war rather than a story of military campaigns told by generals and admirals; the many claims made at the time about the accurate use of black and white and colour archive film in the series; the contested claims that the series is "definitive"; and its legacy for Television History. Downing’s fascinating study includes interviews with the series producer, Jeremy Isaacs, and the other programme makers and researchers, as well as original research gathered from the archives of Thames Television, the Independent Broadcasting Authority, the papers of Jeremy Isaacs, the production records at the Imperial War Museum, and the press response to the series at the time of first transmission and since. Downing’s insightful study is fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in the monumental television production.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《战时世界》从第一次在独立电视台播出至今已经40年了，仍然是英国电视出品的最有影响力、最著名的历史电视剧：这部电视剧是对二战大事记的检验，包括影片档案、目击者的描述、Laurence Olivier掷地有声的旁白和Carl Davis萦绕心头的音乐。这部由26个部分组成的系列剧集耗时两年多，动用了50人的团队，花费了80万英镑（相当于现在1200万英镑）。这部史诗巨制影响深远。在1973年吸引力了1000万观众，赢得了无数的奖杯。至今为止，《战时世界》在全球范围内循环播出，出售录像带和DVD影片，成为了最畅销的纪实系列剧集。
在这本最新的关于英国电影学院经典电视剧集的书里，电视制作人、作家泰勒 唐宁用批判的眼光审视着《战时世界》，探索不用以往的某些方面：这部剧集的风格、民族精神，普通人讲述战时被捕的故事，而不是将军和上将讲述军队战役的故事。（Pêche）
Awards/获奖情况：’Taylor Downing has constructed a fascinating story...The World at War was and remains a landmark, the significance of which we can better appreciate through this clear, incisive and readable book.’ -David Reynolds, The Guardian
About the Author/作者介绍： 泰勒唐宁（Taylor Downing）是电视制片人和作家。作为Flashback Television的常务董事，他制作了超过200的纪录片，诸多历史节目获奖。2008他的《1983年：末日的边缘》（第四频道和美国探索发现频道联合出品）获得了格雷厄森奖最佳历史纪录片。他赢得了1985年首次BFI档案成果奖。泰勒是《丘吉尔的战争实验室》（Little，Brown 2010），《空中间谍》（Little，Brown 2011），《冷战》（1996，杰瑞米伊萨克合著）和《奥林匹亚》（BFI的经典电影）的作者。TAYLOR DOWNING is a television producer and writer. As managing director of Flashback Television he has produced more than 200 documentaries including many award winning history programmes. In 2008 he won the Grierson Award for Best Historical Documentary for 1983 – The Brink of Apocalypse (Channel 4 and Discovery US co-pro). He won the first ever BFI Award for Archival Achievement in 1985. Taylor is author of Churchill’s War Lab (Little, Brown 2010) and Spies in the Sky (Little, Brown 2011), Cold War (1996, with Jeremy Isaacs) and Olympia (a BFI Film Classic). He regularly writes on Television History for History Today magazine and has lectured on Television History at the universities of Cambridge, Lincoln and Queen’s, Belfast in the last two years. Taylor began his career at the Imperial War Museum in 1976 soon after the making of The World at War and then at Thames Television in the history unit that was set up following the huge success of The World at War.
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