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Sally Wainwright

by Beth Johnson e Kristyn Gorton

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 This book-length study of Sally Wainwrightâ€™s television, including analysis of globally recognised television series such as Happy Valley, Last Tango in Halifax, and Gentleman Jack, considers Wainwrightâ€™s work in terms of genre, melodrama and through the concept of emotion. -- .
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Youâ€™Re Nicked - Investigating British Television Police Series

by Ben Lamb

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 This is the first comprehensive investigation of British television police series from 1955 to the present. It reveals how the popular genre has developed along stylistic, thematic and philosophical lines, simultaneously providing a socio-political history of British class, culture and gender. -- .
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Sound / Image - Moments In Television

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 This collection interrogates how sound/image aesthetics can enhance our critical appreciation of television, with reference to a range of television programming, including episodic series and serial dramas, sitcoms, science fiction, animation, horror, thrillers and period dramas. -- .
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Substance / Style - Moments In Television

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 This collection interrogates and overturns the typical hierarchies of substance over style, renegotiating their relationship through new perspectives and with reference to a range of television programming, including series and serial dramas, sitcoms, science-fiction, animation, horror, thrillers and period dramas. -- .
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Complexity / Simplicity - Moments In Television

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 This collection interrogates the concept of complex TV, and reappraises the value of simplicity in TV, with reference to a range of television programming, including episodic series and serial dramas, sitcoms, science-fiction, animation, horror, thrillers and period dramas. -- .
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David Milch

by Jason Jacobs

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 This book is about the life and work of David Milch, the writer who created NYPD Blue, Deadwood and other important works of US television drama. It locates him within the traditions of achievement in American literature over the past in order to evaluate his contribution to fiction writing. -- .
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You'Re Nicked - Investigating British Television Police Series

by Ben Lamb

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 This is the first comprehensive investigation of British television police series from 1955 to the present. It reveals how the popular genre has developed along stylistic, thematic and philosophical lines, simultaneously providing a socio-political history of British class, culture and gender. -- .
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Joss Whedon

by Matthew Pateman

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 A comprehensive analysis of Whedonâ€™s role in shaping the twenty-first-century TV landscape, featuring unique access to drafts of scripts and other source material. The book offers both detailed assessments of individual episodes and overarching histories of production. An essential and timely contribution to TV scholarship. -- .
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Youâ€™Re Nicked - Investigating British Television Police Series

by Ben Lamb

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 This is the first comprehensive investigation of British television police series from 1955 to the present. It reveals how the popular genre has developed along stylistic, thematic and philosophical lines, simultaneously providing a socio-political history of British class, culture and gender. -- .
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David Milch

by Jason Jacobs

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 This book is about the life and work of David Milch, the writer who created NYPD Blue, Deadwood and other important works of US television drama. It locates him within the traditions of achievement in American literature over the past in order to evaluate his contribution to fiction writing. -- .
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Tv Antiquity - Swords, Sandals, Blood And Sand

by Sylvie Magerstadt

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 This is the first comprehensive overview of Greek and Roman historical dramas on television. It traces the development of fictional representations of antiquity from the 1950s to the present, exploring how broader cultural, political and economic issues have influenced the representation of antiquity on television. -- .
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Joss Whedon

by Matthew Pateman

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 A comprehensive analysis of Whedonâ€™s role in shaping the twenty-first-century TV landscape, featuring unique access to drafts of scripts and other source material. The book offers both detailed assessments of individual episodes and overarching histories of production. An essential and timely contribution to TV scholarship. -- .
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Paul Abbott

by Beth Johnson

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 The first book-length academic study of the television programmes created, written by, and/or executive-produced, by Abbott -- .
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Troy Kennedy Martin

by Lez Cooke

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 This is the first full-length study of the screenwriter Troy Kennedy Martin, whose work for film and television includes Z Cars, The Italian Job, Kellyâ€™s Heroes, The Sweeney, and Edge of Darkness. Thiswill appeal to anyone with an interest in television drama, screenwriting, and the history of British television over the last fifty years. -- .
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Jimmy Mcgovern

by Steve Blandford

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 The first complete study of one of Britain's leading television writers, Jimmy McGovern. With chapters covering series such as Brookside, Cracker, The Street and Accused, the book also analyses a key period in the history of television drama. -- .
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Alan Bennett

by Kara Mckechnie

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 The first book written on Alan Bennett's work for television, including his plays, series, documentaries and biographical pieces. -- .
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Tony Garnett

by Stephen Lacey

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 This is the first book-length study of one of the most prolific producers working in British television, responsible for both Cathy Come Home (1966) and This Life (1996-8). The book discusses the ways in which Garnett has shaped the role of the creative producer, and analyses his contribution to a distinctively televisual social realism. -- .
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Alan Clarke

by Dave Rolinson

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 The first full-length critical study of Alan Clarke, one of Britain's greatest auteur directors which examines the full range of Clarke's work, and goes beyond the violent image garnered from work like 'Scum' and 'The Firm'. -- .
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Lynda La Plante

by Julia Hallam

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 The first account of the television drama of Lynda La Plante, Britain's most successful and well known screenwriter, whose work is central to understanding changes that shook the UK television industry in the late twentieth century -- .
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Trevor Griffiths

by John Tulloch

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 In his outstanding career, Trevor Griffiths has negotiated the issues of genre, politics, identity, class, history, memory and televisual form with a sustained creativity and integrity second to none. -- .
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Alan Clarke

by Dave Rolinson

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 The first full-length critical study of the British television director Alan Clarke, whose varied career included the gritty social realism of the banned 'Scum', the fantasy 'Penda's Fen' and the influential terrorist short, 'Elephant'. -- .
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Jimmy Perry And David Croft

by Simon Morgan-Russell

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 Offers an analysis of the four collaborative sitcoms of Jimmy Perry and David Croft, 'Dad's Army', 'It Ain't half Hot, Mum!', 'Hi-de-Hi!' and 'You Rang M'Lord?'. Considers the themes and ideas that run through the series in terms of their representation of class and gender, and in terms of other sitcoms and cultures which produced them. -- .
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Andrew Davies

by Sarah Cardwell

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 Offers a critical appraisal of the work of screenwriter Andrew Davies ('Pride and Prejudice', 'The Way We Live Now'), and assesses his contribution to British television. -- .
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Terry Nation

by Andrew O'Day e Jonathan Bignell

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 The first academic study of the science fiction television of Terry Nation, inventor of the Daleks, and author of 'Survivors' and 'Blake's 7' - places his work in the context of its production, and contains sustained analysis of key programmes, as well as new interview material. -- .
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