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British television drama : past, present, and future
- Title
- British television drama : past, present, and future / edited by Jonathan Bignell, Stephen Lacey, and Madeleine Macmurraugh-Kavanagh.
- Publication
- Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PN1992.65 .B683 2000 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 200 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- This collection of essays debates the past, present and future of British television drama. The text reflects on the changing face of TV drama, and presents case studies on critical approaches, general topics and specific programmes.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-193) and index.
- Contents
- Contexts / Tony Garnett -- Television drama series : a producer's view / Irene Shubik -- TV drama : then and now / John McGrath -- Sydney Newman and the 'Golden Age' / Shaun Sutton -- 1970s : regional variations / Barry Hanson -- Writing television drama-- then and now / Andrew Davies -- 'Age of innocence' / Alan Plater -- Playing shops, shopping plays : the effect of the internal market on television drama / David Edgar.
- Mapping the terrain : Troy Kennedy Martin's Edge of Darkness / John Bull -- Holding On : signs of the city-- the motif of the redemptive journey in Tony Marchant's Holding On / Peter Billingham -- 'What truth is there in this story?' : the dramatisation of Northern Ireland / Edward Braun -- Empancipatory strategies of Reginald Perrin / Chris Fox -- 'Run over by one's own story' : genre and ethos in Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective / Antony Hilfer -- Power plays : gender, genre and Lynda La Plante / Julia Hallam -- Too secret for words : coded dissent in female-authored Wednesday Plays / Madeleine Macmurraugh-Kavanagh -- What do actors do when they act? / John Caughie.
- Multiple authorship in TV drama : Trevor Griffiths's version of The Cherry Orchard / John Tulloch.
- ISBN
- 0312234546
- 9780312234546
- 0333774957
- 9780333774953
- 0333774965
- 9780333774960
- LCCN
- 00027825
- 9780333774960
- OCLC
- ocm43590888
- 43590888
- SCSB-1148277
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library