Power plays: gender, genre, and Lynda La Plante / Julia Hallam. Sydney Newman and the 'Golden Age' / Shaun Sutton -- Television drama series: a producer's view / Irene Shubik -- TV drama: then and now / John McGrath -- Writing television drama: then and now / Andrew Davies -- Brookside: the technology backstory / Phil Redmond -- Plot inflation in Greater Weatherfield: Coronation Street in the 1990s / Billy Smart -- Persuaded? The impact of changing production contexts on three adaptations of Persuasion / Sarah Cardwell -- 'The Age of Innocence' / Alan Plater -- Playing shops, shopping plays: the effect of the internal market on television drama / David Edgar -- 'A Hero Mumsy': parenting, power, and production changes in The Sarah Jane Adventures / Victoria Byard -- Downton Abbey: reinventing the British costume drama / James Chapman -- What do actors do when they act? / John Caughie -- Coda: Timothy West discusses 'Acting on Stage: Acting on Screen' -- The 1970s: regional variations / Barry Hanson -- 'What truth is there in this story?': The dramatisation of Northern Ireland / Edward Braun -- Moving Waterloo Road from Rochdale to Greenock: exploring a sense of place in drama series / Cameron Roach -- Too secret for words: coded dissent in female-authored Wednesday Plays / Madeleine Macmurraugh-Kavanagh -- 'Ah! Our very own Juliet Bravo, or is it Jill Gascoine?' Ashes to Ashes and representations of gender / Ben Lamb -- Power plays: gender, genre, and Lynda La Plante / Julia Hallam.
Summary:
"British Television Drama provides resources for critical thinking about key aspects of television drama in Britain since 1960, including institutional, textual, cultural, economic and audience-centred modes of study. It presents and contests significant strands of critical work in the field, since the essays by TV professionals reveal their strongly-held views about TV (which often conflict productively with the views of fellow contributors) and the academics offer reasoned and more developed arguments that advance understanding. The new edition includes a revised chapter by acclaimed TV producer Tony Garnett reflecting on his work since Cathy Come Home in the 1960s, new chapters by Phil Redmond the creator of Brookside and Hollyoaks, and Cameron Roach, Head of Drama Commissioning at Sky TV and former executive producer of Waterloo Road. New academic analyses include work on Downton Abbey, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Ashes to Ashes, adaptations of Persuasion, and the changing production methods on Coronation Street. The book's three sections are framed by new introductory essays by the editors to establish and contextualise the primary concerns and methodologies of each chapter"-- Provided by publisher.
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