Television Drama: Realism, Modernism, and British Culture

by John Caughie

Overview

Television Drama offers an account of British television drama from its origins in live studio drama in the prewar and immediate postwar years, through the Golden Age of the single play of the 1960s and 1970s, to its convergence with an emerging British art cinema in the 1990s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198742180
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/20/2000
Series:	Oxford Television Studies
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

John Caughie is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Companion to British and Irish Cinema (with Kevin Rockett), and on the editorial board of Screen.

Table of Contents

Introduction: 'serious drama'Early television and television dramaThe making of the 'Golden Age'The rush of the real: an aesthetics of immediacyArt television: authorship and ironyModernism, or, Not non-naturalismTelevision drama and the art film: the logic of convergenceSmall pleasures: adaptation and the pastEpilogue: the return of value