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Author : Leonard White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781903053188
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (531 download)
Download or read book Armchair Theatre written by Leonard White and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Armchair Theatre written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Hayes
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326466267
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Two Against the Underworld - the Collected Unauthorised Guide to the Avengers Series 1 written by Alan Hayes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Against the Underworld brings together eight years of research to tell the story of The Avengers from both sides of the camera. It has now been further revised following the recovery of the episode Tunnel of Fear. The authors lift the lid on all 26 Series 1 episodes. Comprehensive chapters detail the narratives in extended synopsis form, as well as the production, transmission and reception of each episode, and the talented personnel who made them. The creation of The Avengers, Ian Hendry's departure, the series' destiny and the mystery of the missing episodes are explored in a series of essays, each of which has been revised. Avengers writer Roger Marshall and Neil Hendry both contribute forewords to this volume. The book also boasts black-and-white illustrations by Shaqui Le Vesconte and 70 pages of appendices that deal in depth with the unproduced episodes of Series 1, Keel and Steed's further adventures in the comic strip The Drug Pedlar and the novel Too Many Targets, and much more.
Author : Lez Cooke
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526129825
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book A sense of place written by Lez Cooke and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering study examines regional British television drama from its beginnings on the BBC and ITV in the 1950s to the arrival of Channel Four in 1982. It discusses the ways in which regionalism, regional culture and regional identity have been defined, outlines the history of regional broadcasting in the UK, and includes two detailed case studies – of Granada Television and BBC English Regions Drama – representing contrasting examples of regional television drama during what is often described as the ‘golden age’ of British television. The conclusion brings the study up to date by discussing recent developments in regional drama production, and by considering future possibilities. Written in a scholarly but accessible style, the book uncovers a forgotten history of British television drama that will be of interest to lecturers and students of media and cultural studies, as well as the general reader with an interest in the history of British television.
Author : Lez Cooke
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847795889
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)
Download or read book Troy Kennedy Martin written by Lez Cooke and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length study of the screenwriter Troy Kennedy Martin, whose work for film and television includes Z Cars, The Italian Job, Kelly’s Heroes, The Sweeney, Reilly – Ace of Spies and Edge of Darkness. With a career spanning six decades Troy Kennedy Martin has seen the rise and fall of the television dramatist, making his debut in the era of studio-based television drama in the late 1950s prior to the transition to filmed drama (for which he argued in a famous manifesto) as the television play was gradually replaced by popular series and serials, for which Kennedy Martin did some of his best work. Drawing on original interviews with Kennedy Martin and his collaborators, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of the film and television career of one of Britain’s leading screenwriters. Also included is a chapter examining Kennedy Martin’s significant contribution to innovative and experimental television drama - his 1964 ‘Nats Go Home’ polemic and the six-part serial, Diary of a Young Man, plus his 1986 MacTaggart Lecture which anticipated recent developments in television style and technology. Written in an easily accessible style, this book will appeal to anyone with an interest in television drama, screenwriting, and the history of British television over the last fifty years.
Author : Eva Orbanz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Journey to a Legend and Back written by Eva Orbanz and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of British realistic film making as told in interview by its proponents.
Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134678614
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book History of European Drama and Theatre written by Erika Fischer-Lichte and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major study reconstructs the vast history of European drama from Greek tragedy through to twentieth-century theatre, focusing on the subject of identity. Throughout history, drama has performed and represented political, religious, national, ethnic, class-related, gendered, and individual concepts of identity. Erika Fischer-Lichte's topics include: * ancient Greek theatre * Shakespeare and Elizabethan theatre by Corneilli, Racine, Molière * the Italian commedia dell'arte and its transformations into eighteenth-century drama * the German Enlightenment - Lessing, Schiller, Goethe, and Lenz * romanticism by Kleist, Byron, Shelley, Hugo, de Vigny, Musset, Büchner, and Nestroy * the turn of the century - Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Stanislavski * the twentieth century - Craig, Meyerhold, Artaud, O'Neill, Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett, Müller. Anyone interested in theatre throughout history and today will find this an invaluable source of information.
Author : Helen Wheatley
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526125617
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Gothic television written by Helen Wheatley and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothic television is the first full length study of the Gothic released on British and US television. An historical account, the book combines detailed archival research with analyses of key programmes, from Mystery and Imagination and Dark Shadows, to The Woman in White and Twin Peaks, and uncovers an aspect of television drama history which has, until now, remained critically unexplored. While some have seen television as too literal or homely a medium to successfully present Gothic fictions, Gothic television argues that the genre, in its many guises, is, and has always been, well-suited to television as a domestic medium, given the genre’s obsessions with haunted houses and troubled families. This book will be of interest to lecturers and students across a number of disciplines including television studies, Gothic studies, and adaptation studies, as well as to the general reader with an interest in the Gothic, and in the history of television drama.
Author : Sydney Newman
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1773050532
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Head of Drama written by Sydney Newman and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 17-09-05 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoir of the creator of Doctor Who and a legend in British and Canadian TV and film A major influence on the BBC and independent television in Britain in the 1960s, as well as on CBC and the National Film Board in Canada, Sydney Newman acted as head of drama at a key period in the history of television. For the first time, his comprehensive memoirs Ñ written in the years before his death in 1997 Ñ are being made public. Born to a poor Jewish family in the tenements of Queen Street in Toronto, NewmanÕs artistic talent got him a job at the NFB under John Grierson. He then became one of the first producers at CBC TV before heading overseas to the U.K. where he revitalized drama programming. Harold Pinter and Alun Owen were playwrights whom Newman nurtured, and their contemporary, socially conscious plays were successful, both artistically and commercially. At the BBC, overseeing a staff of 400, he developed a science fiction show that flourishes to this day: Doctor Who. Providing further context to NewmanÕs memoir is an in-depth biographical essay by Graeme Burk, which positions NewmanÕs legacy in the history of television, and an afterword by one of SydneyÕs daughters, Deirdre Newman.
Author : J. Bignell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137327588
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book British Television Drama written by J. Bignell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring leading scholars of British television drama and noted writers and producers from the television industry, this new edition of British Television Drama evaluates past and present TV fiction since the 1960s, and considers its likely future.
Author : Amanda Wrigley
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526115956
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Screen plays written by Amanda Wrigley and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Screen plays is a ground-breaking collection that chronicles the rich and surprising history of stage plays produced for the small screen between 1930 and the present. The volume opens with a substantial historical outline of how plays originally written for the theatre have been presented by the BBC and ITV, as well as independent producers and cultural organisations. Subsequent chapters utilise a variety of critical methodologies to analyse a wide range of outside broadcasts from theatres, screen adaptations of existing stage productions, along with original television productions of classic and contemporary drama. Making a compelling case for the centrality of the theatre to British television’s past and present, Screen plays opens up new areas of research for all those engaged in theatre, media and adaptation studies.
Author : Ted Kotcheff
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1770909907
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Director’s Cut written by Ted Kotcheff and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With six decades in show business, legendary director Ted Kotcheff looks back on his life Born to immigrant parents and raised in the slums of Toronto during the Depression, Ted Kotcheff learned storytelling on the streets before taking a stagehand job at CBC Television. Discovering his skills with actors and production, Kotcheff went on to direct some of the greatest films of the freewheeling 1970s, including The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Wake in Fright, and North Dallas Forty. After directing the 1980s blockbusters First Blood and Weekend at Bernie’s, Kotcheff helped produce the groundbreaking TV show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. During his career, he was declared a Communist by the U.S. government, banned from the Royal Albert Hall in London, and coped with assassination threats on one of his lead actors. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} With his seminal films enjoying a critical renaissance, including praise from Martin Scorsese and Nick Cave, Kotcheff now turns the lens on himself. Witty and fearless, Director’s Cut is not just a memoir, but also a close-up on life and craft, with stories of his long friendship with Mordecai Richler and working with stars like Sylvester Stallone, James Mason, Gregory Peck, Ingmar Bergman, Gene Hackman, Jane Fonda, and Richard Dreyfuss, as well as advice on how to survive the slings and arrows of Hollywood.
Author : Jason Jacobs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198742333
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (423 download)
Download or read book The Intimate Screen written by Jason Jacobs and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the formative period of British television drama, concentrating on the years 1936-55. It examines the continuities and changes of early television drama, and the impact this had upon the subsequent 'golden age'. In particular, it questions the caricature of early television drama as 'photographed stage plays' and argues that early television pioneers in fact produced a diverse range of innovative drama productions, using a wide range of techniques.
Author : Horace Newcomb
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135194793
Total Pages : 2732 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Television written by Horace Newcomb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 2732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Television, second edtion is the first major reference work to provide description, history, analysis, and information on more than 1100 subjects related to television in its international context. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclo pedia of Television, 2nd edition website.
Author : Christopher Perry
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1900203626
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The British Television Pilot Episodes Research Guide 1936-2015 written by Christopher Perry and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new idea can become an expensive flop for TV executives. So from the earliest days of television, the concept of a pilot episode seemed like a good idea. Trying out new actors; new situations and new concepts before making a series was good economical sense. It was also tax deductible. Sometimes these pilots were shown on television; sometimes they were so awful they were hidden from sight in archives; and sometimes they were excellent one-offs, but a series seemed elusive and never materialised. Chris Perry has always been fascinated by the pilot episode. So many pilots are made annually, but never seen by audiences. Only a handful appear on screen. It's a hidden world of comedy, variety, drama and factual programming. This volume attempts to lift the lid on the world of the TV pilot by revealing the many transmitted and untransmitted episodes made through the decades.
Author : Michele Hilmes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136911189
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)
Download or read book Network Nations written by Michele Hilmes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Network Nations, Michele Hilmes reveals and re-conceptualizes the roots of media globalization through a historical look at the productive transnational cultural relationship between British and American broadcasting. Though frequently painted as opposites--the British public service tradition contrasting with the American commercial system--in fact they represent two sides of the same coin. Neither could have developed without the constant presence of the other, in terms not only of industry and policy but of aesthetics, culture, and creativity, despite a long history of oppositional rhetoric. Based on primary research in British and American archives, Network Nations argues for a new transnational approach to media history, looking across the traditional national boundaries within which media is studied to encourage an awareness that media globalization has a long and fruitful history. Placing media history in the framework of theories of nationalism and national identity, Hilmes examines critical episodes of transnational interaction between the US and Britain, from radio’s amateurs to the relationship between early network heads; from the development of radio features and drama to television spy shows and miniseries; as each other’s largest suppliers of programming and as competitors on the world stage; and as a network of creative, business, and personal relationships that has rarely been examined, but that shapes television around the world. As the global circuits of television grow and as global regions, particularly Europe, attempt to define a common culture, the historical role played by the British/US media dialogue takes on new significance.
Author : Joseph Oldham
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526116146
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Paranoid visions written by Joseph Oldham and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paranoid visions explores the history of the spy and conspiracy genres on British television, from 1960s Cold War series through 1980s conspiracy dramas to contemporary ‘war on terror’ thrillers. It analyses classic dramas including Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Edge of Darkness, A Very British Coup and Spooks. This book will be an invaluable resource for television scholars interested in a new perspective on the history of television drama and intelligence scholars seeking an analysis of the popular representation of espionage with a strong political focus, as well as fans of cult British television and general readers interested in British cultural history.
