British Television Drama: Past, Present and Future

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J. Bignell, S. Lacey
Springer, May 12, 2014 - Social Science - 255 pages
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.
 

Contents

Acknowledgements
1925
Contexts
1943
Introduction to Part I
1957
Sydney Newman and the Golden Age
1960
Then and
1969
Then and
5
Coronation Street in the 1990s
1984
Persuaded? The Impact of Changing Production Contexts on Three Adaptations
1996
Introduction to Part II
2010
The Effect of the Internal Market on Television
9
Reinventing the British Costume Drama
Timothy West discusses Acting on Stage Acting on Screen
The Dramatisation of Northern Ireland
Coded Dissent in Femaleauthored Wednesday Plays
Gender Genre and Lynda La Plante
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About the author (2014)

Jonathan Bignell, University of Reading, UK Edward Braun University of Bristol, UK Victoria Byard, University of Leicester, UK Sarah Cardwell, University of Kent, UK John Caughie, Glasgow University, UK James Chapman, University of Leicester, UK Andrew Davies, writer for television, UK David Edgar, University of Birmingham, UK Tony Garnett, film and television producer, UK Julia Hallam, University of Liverpool, UK Barry Hanson, television producer, UK Stephen Lacey, University of South Wales, UK Ben Lamb, University of South Wales, UK John McGrath, film and theatre producer, UK Madeleine Macmurraugh-Kavanagh (Davies), University of Reading, UK Alan Plater, writer for television, UK Phil Redmond, producer and screenwriter, UK Cameron Roach, Senior Commissioning Editor for Drama at BSkyB, UK Irene Shubik, television producer, UK Billy Smart, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Shaun Sutton, drama producer, UK Timothy West, stage, film and television actor, UK