Television Drama - Realism, Modernism, and British Culture (Hardcover, New)

An account of British television drama from its origins in live studio drama in the pre-war and immediate post-war years, through the Golden Age of the single play of the 1960s and 1970s, to its convergence with an emerging British art cinema in the 1990s. It relates the development of television drama to movements which were going on within the culture. In particular, it is concerned with a series of arguments and debates about politics and form which centred around issues of immediacy and naturalism, realism and modernism in public culture. The book addresses contemporary television in the form of the television film and the classic serial, and raises new questions about such issues as adaptation and acting. The importance of the book lies in its attempt to place television drama at the centre of late-20th-century British culture and to relate the criticism of television drama to a wider history of aesthetic debates and arguments.

General

Imprint:	Clarendon Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Oxford Television Studies
Release date:	February 2000
First published:	April 2000
Authors:	John Caughie (Professor of Film and Television Studies)
Dimensions:	242 x 162 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-874219-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Television Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-874219-3
Barcode:	9780198742197

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