Paul Rotha at the BBC and The World Is Ours revisited

IF 0.9 2区艺术学 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION

Critical Studies in Television Pub Date : 2026-03-11 DOI:10.1177/17496020261432057

Martin Stollery

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Abstract

This article reassesses Paul Rotha’s tenure as BBC television’s Head of Documentaries (1953–55), primarily by reconsidering his signature television series, The World Is Ours (1954–56), as a more hybrid and collaborative production than has hitherto been acknowledged. It relates Rotha’s BBC work to the British documentary film movement’s embrace of a specific variant of postwar internationalism, to the changing style of his preceding film projects during the 1940s and early 1950s, and to emergent practices within postwar British factual television. This article broadens understanding of a period when new televisual forms were being developed and the question of television production for international markets gradually became more prominent.

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BBC的保罗·罗塔和《世界是我们的》的重访

本文主要通过重新审视保罗·罗塔作为BBC电视台纪录片负责人（1953-55）的任期，重新审视他的标志性电视连续剧《世界是我们的》（1954-56），认为这是一部比迄今为止公认的更混合、更合作的作品。它将Rotha的BBC作品与英国纪录片运动对战后国际主义的一种特定变体的拥抱，与他在20世纪40年代和50年代初之前的电影项目的变化风格，以及战后英国事实电视的新兴实践联系起来。这篇文章拓宽了对一个时期的理解，在这个时期，新的电视形式正在发展，面向国际市场的电视制作问题逐渐变得更加突出。

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Critical Studies in Television FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION-

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2.10

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30.00%

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期刊介绍： Critical Studies in Television publishes articles that draw together divergent disciplines and different ways of thinking, to promote and advance television as a distinct academic discipline. It welcomes contributions on any aspect of television—production studies and institutional histories, audience and reception studies, theoretical approaches, conceptual paradigms and pedagogical questions. It continues to invite analyses of the compositional principles and aesthetics of texts, as well as contextual matters relating to both contemporary and past productions. CST also features book reviews, dossiers and debates. The journal is scholarly but accessible, dedicated to generating new knowledge and fostering a dynamic intellectual platform for television studies.