British Television Drama: Past, Present and Future

Palgrave Macmillan

2014

XII, 255 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index

9781137327567

Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- Editors' Introduction -- 1. Contexts; Tony Garnett -- PART I: INSTITUTIONS AND TECHNOLOGIES -- Editors' Introduction to Part I -- 2. Sydney Newman and the 'Golden Age'; Shaun Sutton -- 3. Television Drama Series: a Producer's View; Irene Shubik -- 4. TV Drama: Then and Now; John McGrath -- 5. Writing Television Drama - Then and Now; Andrew Davies -- 6 Brookside: The Technology Backstory; Phil Redmond -- 7 Plot Inflation in Greater Weatherfield: Coronation Street in the 1990s; Billy Smart -- 8 Persuaded? The Impact of Changing Production Contexts on Three Adaptations of Persuasion; Sarah Cardwell -- PART II: FORMATS AND GENRES -- Editors' Introduction to Part II -- 9. 'The Age of Innocence'; Alan Plater -- 10. Playing Shops, Shopping Plays: The Effect of the Internal Market on Television Drama; David Edgar -- 11. 'A Hero Mumsy': Parenting, Power, and Production Changes in The Sarah Jane Adventures; Victoria Byard -- 12. Downton Abbey: Reinventing the British Costume Drama; James Chapman -- 13. What Do Actors Do When They Act? John Caughie -- CODA: Timothy West discusses 'Acting on Stage: Acting on Screen', followed by extracts from the discussion after his and John Caughie's presentations. -- PART III: REPRESENTATIONS -- 14. The 1970s: Regional Variations; Barry Hanson -- 15. 'What Truth is there in this Story?': The Dramatisation of Northern Ireland; Edward Braun -- 16. Moving Waterloo Road from Rochdale to Greenock: Exploring a Sense of Place in Drama Series; Cameron Roach -- 17. Too Secret for Words: Coded Dissent in Female-authored Wednesday Plays; Madeleine Macmurraugh-Kavanagh -- 18. 'Ah! Our very own Juliet Bravo, or is it Jill Gascoine?' Ashes to Ashes and Representations of Gender; Ben Lamb -- 19. Power Plays: Gender, Genre, and Lynda La Plante; Julia Hallam -- Editors' Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

Featuring leading scholars of British television drama and noted writers and producers from the television industry, this new edition of British Television Drama evaluates past and present TV fiction since the 1960s, and considers its likely future.

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