Remembering Dennis Potter Through Fans, Extras and Archives

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Television as Heritage

   • Joanne Garde-Hansen, Hannah Grist

   Pages 1-13

3. Potted Potter: The Impact of Dennis Potter Locally, Nationally and Internationally

   • Joanne Garde-Hansen, Hannah Grist

   Pages 14-29

4. Archiving Potter: Memory and Television Production

   • Joanne Garde-Hansen, Hannah Grist

   Pages 30-48

5. Potter’s Extras: Below-the-Line Production Memories

   • Joanne Garde-Hansen, Hannah Grist

   Pages 49-68

6. Potter’s Fans: From Hyperlocal to International Fandom

   • Joanne Garde-Hansen, Hannah Grist

   Pages 69-87

7. Conclusion: Economies of Remembering Television

   • Joanne Garde-Hansen, Hannah Grist

   Pages 88-91

8. Back Matter

   Pages 92-109

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An accessible case study of television heritage, Remembering Dennis Potter Through Fans, Extras and Archive draws on the memories of fans and extras of Potter's productions. In providing insight into issues of visibility, memory and television production, it fulfils a vital need for better understanding of television production history as heritage.

• television
• media history
• sociology
• drama
• regional studies
• museology
• heritage
• Dennis Potter
• archive
• audience nostalgia
• access
• history
• history of literature
• knowledge
• memory
• television production
• understanding
• media research

"This short book makes a persuasive case for television as the vehicle for the complexity of cultural memory and convincingly demonstrates the rich 'inheritability' of Potter's magnificent work." - Timothy Corrigan, University of Pennsylvania, USA

• University of Warwick, UK

  Joanne Garde-Hansen

• University of Gloucestershire, UK

  Hannah Grist

Joanne Garde-Hansen is Associate Professor of Culture, Media and Communication at the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, University of Warwick, UK. She has published Save As…Digital Memories (with Hoskins and Reading, 2009), Media and Memory (2011), Geography and Memory (with Jones, 2012) and Emotion Online (with Gorton, 2013). She is involved in media and memory projects in the UK and more recently in Brazil.

Hannah Grist is currently completing her PhD at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. Her interdisciplinary research across media studies, heritage, archival studies and memory studies explores media as cultural heritage. Her empirical research has been examining how Dennis Potter's legacy is managed in the heritage environment through the return of the archive.

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