Television Drama Realism, Modernism, and British Culture |
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| Author:
| Caughie, John |
| Series title: | Oxford Television Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-874218-0 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2000 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $159.95AUD $145.41 |
Book Description:
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Television Drama offers an account of British television drama from its origins in live drama in the 1930s and 1940s, through the Golden Age of the 1960s and 1970s with writers like David Mercer and Dennis Potter and directors like Ken Loach, and its convergence with a British art cinema in the 1990s in films like My Beautiful Laundrette. It also considers the development of series like Boys from the Blackstuff and 'classic serials' like The Jewel in the Crown, Pride and Prejudice and...
More DescriptionTelevision Drama offers an account of British television drama from its origins in live drama in the 1930s and 1940s, through the Golden Age of the 1960s and 1970s with writers like David Mercer and Dennis Potter and directors like Ken Loach, and its convergence with a British art cinema in the 1990s in films like My Beautiful Laundrette. It also considers the development of series like Boys from the Blackstuff and 'classic serials' like The Jewel in the Crown, Pride and Prejudice and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.