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''Arena'' is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC since 1 October 1975. Voted by TV executives in ''Broadcast'' magazine as one of the top 50 most influential programmes of all time, it has produced over six hundred episodes directed by, among others, Jana Boková, Nigel Finch, Mary Harron, Vikram Jayanti, Adam Low, James Marsh, Leslie Megahey, Volker Schlondorff, Martin Scorsese, Julian Temple, Anthony Wall, Leslie Woodward, and Alan Yentob. The current series editor is Anthony Wall, who has edited ''Arena'' since 1985. ==History== The arts strand ''Arena'' was initially created in 1975〔Tise Vahimagi. (2003-12) ("Burton, Humphrey (1931-) " ). ''BFI Screen Online". Retrieved 27 June 2013.〕 by the BBC Head of Music & Arts at that time, Humphrey Burton, when he founded a magazine named ''Arena'' exploring art, design, filmmaking, and theatre. In 1977, under producer and director Leslie Megahey, the stand divided into ''Arena Theatre'' and ''Arena Art and Design'', and ''Arena'' became less of a magazine and more a home for short, distinctive and stylish films about mainly British theatre and visual arts. In 1978 Megahey became editor of ''Omnibus'' and Alan Yentob, who had been supervising ''Arena Theatre'', took over and the two themes were merged. The series, relaunched in January 1979 and renamed simply ''Arena'', began to adopt a format of single subject essays. It earned great critical acclaim for its enthusiasm for the popular as well as the high arts. During Yentob's time as editor, ''Arena'' had six BAFTA nominations and three BAFTA awards. A group of radical directors, notably Nigel Finch and Anthony Wall, gathered around Yentob and ''Arena'', including Nigel Williams and Mary Dickinson. Hits from 1977 included ''Who Is Poly Styrene?'', ''La Dame Aux Gladiolas'', a portrait of Edna Everage, and most notably the groundbreaking ''My Way'', an examination of the appeal of the song, by Nigel Finch and Anthony Wall. It was the first of their collaborations, which developed a new kind of arts film, taking an unlikely subject and building a poetic meditation on its various aspects - further examples include ''The Chelsea Hotel'' (1981), ''The Private Life of the Ford Cortina'' (1982), ''Desert Island Discs'' (1982). Other successes included Leslie Megahey's portrait of Orson Welles (1982), Nigel Williams's study of George Orwell (1982), and Yentob's portrait of Mel Brooks (1981). On Yentob’s move to become Head of Music & Arts in 1985, Finch and Wall took over as joint editor of ''Arena'' until of Finch’s death in 1995. Following a period of uncertainty concerning the future of the arts strand, series editor Wall protected the series in a reshuffle of the BBC. Since then ''Arena'' has been transmitted outside the conventional weekly broadcast strand on BBC Two and BBC Four, and latterly on BBC Four. Under Wall and Finch, ''Arena'' developed the idea of the themed evening, beginning with ''Blues Night'' (1985), followed by ''Caribbean Nights'' (1986), ''Animal Night'' (1989), ''Food Night'' (1990), ''Texas Saturday Night'' (1991) and ''Stories My Country Told Me'' (1995), a three and a half hour presentation on Nations and Nationalism. Since then ''Arena'' has won numerous awards with regular screenings at the BFI Southbank and has continued to cover the arts and culture at the highest level, with films on Bob Dylan, Harold Pinter, The National Theatre and Spitting Image, to name but a few. Most recently ''Arena'' has developed a substantial online presence featuring the (''Arena Hotel'' ), a site that turns the 600-film ''Arena'' archive into a resource to build an online hotel for the stars. The ''Arena Hotel'' was nominated for a Focal International Award in 2013. The Hotel was commissioned for The Space, and will continue to expand. Werner Herzog has praised the series as "the oasis in the sea of insanity that is television". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arena (TV series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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