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Jack Rosenthal (Paperback)
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Jack Rosenthal (Paperback)
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This is the first-ever critical work on Jack Rosenthal, the
award-winning British television dramatist. His career began with
Coronation Street in the 1960s and he became famous for his popular
sitcoms, including The Lovers and The Dustbinmen. During what is
often known as the golden age' of British television drama,
Rosenthal wrote such plays as The Knowledge, The Chain, Spend,
Spend, Spend and P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang, as well as the pilot for
the series London's Burning. This study offers a close analysis of
all Rosenthal's best-known works, drawing on archival material as
well as interviews with his collaborators and cast members. It
traces the events that informed his writing, ranging from his comic
take on the permissive society' of the 1960s, through to recession
in the 1970s and Thatcherism in the 1980s. Rosenthal's distinctive
brand of humour and its everyday surrealism is contrasted
throughout with the work of his contemporaries, including Dennis
Potter, Alan Bleasdale and Johnny Speight, and his influence on
contemporary television and film is analysed. Rosenthal is not
usually placed in the canon of Anglo-Jewish writing but the book
argues this case by focusing on his prize-winning Plays for Today
The Evacuees and Bar Mitzvah Boy. This book will appeal to students
and researchers in Television, Film and Cultural Studies, as well
as those interested in contemporary drama and Jewish Studies. -- .
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