Author

Contributions

  • Fuller, Graham, 1956- - Contributor

Publication

1993 - Faber and Faber, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

42,750 words, Guess

Page Count

171 pages

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and 2 more
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  • LibraryThing271302

Classifications

  • DDC822/.914
  • LCCPR6066.O77 P68 1993

Description

If one writer embodies the unique character of British television drama, it is Dennis Potter. Pennies from Heaven and The Singing Detective amply demonstrate how far he has pushed the frontiers of television drama. In the course of this book, British television's pre-eminent playwright - latterly a novelist and film-maker - talks with passionate erudition, disarming candour and acerbic wit about the early influences that shaped him and led to his pioneering use of non-naturalism to his self-reflexive subversion of film and TV cliches, his controversial approach to sex, politics, religion and the double-edged puritanism of the English condition. The book presents a remarkable portrait of a man for whom writing is, first and foremost, a vocation.

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InterviewsEnglish AuthorsAuthors, EnglishTelevision writersTelevision authorshipPotter, Dennis -- InterviewsAuthors, English -- 20th century -- Interviews

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