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Yet, for all its lavish grandiloquence, television of this sort is humble: it knows its place and pays due deference to acknowledged masterpieces in media to which it believes itself to be a subservient upstart. [...] none of these all-too-human beings would ever be granted a landmark series: passionate bias and nihilistic sarcasm were not the stuff of prime time.
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High Art Lite
High art lite Kenneth Clark's 1969 series Civilisation was a landmark in television, and it continues to influence programme makers to this day - for the worse. By Jonathan Meades Civilisation Jonathan Conlin BFI/Palgrave Macmillan, 150pp, £12
The television series Civilisation, written and presented by Sir Kenneth Clark,...See the full content of this document
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