Tony Garnett is the first book-length study of one of the most
respected and prolific producers working in British television.
From ground-breaking dramas from the 1960s such as Up the Junction
and Cathy Come Home to the 'must see' series in the 1990s and 2000s
such as This Life and The Cops, Garnett has produced some of the
most important and influential British television drama. This book
charts Garnett's career from his early days as an actor to his
position as executive producer and head of World Productions.
Drawing on personal interviews, archival research, contextual
analysis and selected case studies, Tony Garnett examines the ways
in which Garnett has helped to define the role of the producer in
British television drama. Arguing that Garnett was both a key
creative and political influence on the work he produced and an
enabler of the work of others, the book traces his often combative
relationships with broadcasting institutions (especially the BBC).
Garnett's distinctive contribution to the development of a social
realist aesthetic in British TV drama is also examined, from the
documentary-inspired single plays of the 1960s and 70s to the
subversion of genre within popular drama series of the 1990s and
2000s. Additionally, the study discusses the films he made for the
cinema and considers some of the ways in which Garnett's
experiments in film technology - 16 mm in the 1960s, digital video
in the 1990s - have shaped his creative output. Tony Garnett will
be of interest to all levels of researchers and students of British
television drama, media and film.
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