Overview
A collection of essays by leading media professionals and academics, which debates the past, present and future of British television drama. Writers, producers and television executives reflect on the changing face of TV drama, and academics present case studies on critical approaches, general topics and specific programmes. Contextualized by editors' introductions to each section, this collection aims to inspire debate and reappraisal of this formative aspect of television.
Full Product Details
Author: Jonathan Bignell ,
Stephen Lacey ,
Stephen Lacey (Lecturer in Drama, Department of Film and Drama, University of Reading) ,
Madeleine MacMurraugh-Kavanagh (Lecturer in English Film and Drama, University of Reading)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.10cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9780333774960
ISBN 10: 0333774965
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 09 November 2000
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
,
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.
Reviews
'The book not only brings academics and TV professionals together in the debate about televised drama but also provides a probing, but not over-technical introduction to the field of British Television Drama to put alongside Nelson's TV Drama in Transition.' - Christian-Martin Czypull, University of Hannover, European Journal of English Studies
'The book not only brings academics and TV professionals together in the debate about televised drama but also provides a probing, but not over-technical introduction to the field of British Television Drama to put alongside Nelson's TV Drama in Transition.' - Christian-Martin Czypull, University of Hannover, European Journal of English Studies
Author Information
JONATHAN BIGNELL is Senior Lecturer in Media Arts at Royal Holloway College, University of London. He has written Media Semiotics: An Introduction (1997) editing Writing and Cinema (1999) and recently written Postmodern Media Culture (2000). He was joint Project Director (with Stephen Lacey) of 'The BBC Wednesday Play and Post-War British Drama', an Arts and Humanities Research Board institutional fellowship. - STEPHEN LACEY is Lecturer in Drama, Department of Film and Drama at the University of Reading. He is the author of British Realist Theatre: the New Wave in its Context, 1956-65 (1995) and of articles on contemporary British theatre and television. He was joint Project Director (with Jonathan Bignell) of 'The BBC Wednesday Play and Post-War British Drama', an Arts and Humanities Research Board institutional fellowship. - MADELEINE MACMURRAUGH-KAVANAGH is Lecturer in English and Film and Drama at the University of Reading and was the Institutional Fellow researching on the Arts and Humanities Research Board project 'The BBC Wednesday Play and Post-War British Drama'. She is the author of Peter Schaffer: Theatre and Drama.
