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The classic serial, invented by BBC Radio Drama 60 years ago, survived and adapted itself to television, the arrival of color, and the global market in what has become a flood of classics with all channels competing for ratings and overseas sales. This book traces these developments and analzes the genre's response to social, economic, technical, and cultural changes, which have re-shaped it into the form we recognize today. The book contains considerable interview material with performers and media professionals.
The book takes as its theme the relationship between literature and
the contemporary means of production and distribution collectively
termed 'the media' - in particular, film and television. The
intention of the book is to explore and evaluate the mutual
opportunities and restrictions in this relationship. In the grammar
of our culture there seems to be an accepted opinion that print is
superior in terms of cultural production to film, radio or
television, that to read a book is somehow a 'higher' cultural
activity than seeing a play on television or seeing a film. By the
same token, a novel is a 'superior' work of art to film or
television. The longer perspective reveals that traditionally there
always is a greater respect paid to the previous mode of literary
production - poetry was superior to drama, poetic drama was
superior to the novel, and film attained cult and classic status
initially over television.
The classic serial, invented by BBC Radio Drama sixty years ago,
survived and adapted itself to television, the arrival of colour
and the global market in what has become a flood of classics with
all channels competing for ratings and overseas sales. This richly
detailed book traces these developments and analyses the genre's
response to social, economic, technical and cultural changes, which
have re-shaped it into the form we recognise today. The book
contains considerable interview material with performers and media
professionals.
The classic serial, invented by BBC Radio Drama sixty years ago,
survived and adapted itself to television, the arrival of colour
and the global market in what has become a flood of classics with
all channels competing for ratings and overseas sales. This richly
detailed book traces these developments and analyses the genre's
response to social, economic, technical and cultural changes, which
have re-shaped it into the form we recognise today. The book
contains considerable interview material with performers and media
professionals.
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