The early twenty-first century has seen the emergence of a new sytle of television drama in Britain that adopts the professional practices and production values of high-end American television while remaining emphatically 'British' in content and outlook. This book analyses eight of these dramas - S
Style in British Television Drama
โ Scribed by Lez Cooke (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 173
- Series
- Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Nineteen Eighty-Four (BBC, 1954)....Pages 7-28
Coronation Street (ITV, 1960)....Pages 29-40
The Bond (BBC1, 1965)....Pages 41-60
Upstairs Downstairs (ITV, 1971)....Pages 61-78
Bar Mitzvah Boy (BBC1, 1976)....Pages 79-93
Middlemarch (BBC2, 1994)....Pages 94-105
This Life (BBC2, 1996)....Pages 106-115
Births, Marriages and Deaths (BBC2, 1999)....Pages 116-124
Teachers (Channel 4, 2001)....Pages 125-138
Conclusion....Pages 139-144
Back Matter....Pages 145-160
โฆ Subjects
Directing; Film and Television Studies; Regional and Cultural Studies; Cultural History; Genre; Film History
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