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(Hardback)

By: Jonathan Bignell

ISBN: 9781526153791
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Becketts afterlives is the first book-length study dedicated to posthumous adaptations of Becketts oeuvre. This collection analyses the remarkable diversity of creative engagements across different media and cultural contexts that have ensured the survival and continuing relevance of Becketts work in a constantly changing world.


(Hardback)

By: Jonathan Bignell

ISBN: 9780719064203
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book focuses on the five dramas written by Samuel Beckett for television, in the context of British television. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Jonathan Bignell

ISBN: 9780719064210
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This ground-breaking study analyses Beckett's television plays in relation to the history and theory of television. It argues that they are in dialogue with innovative television traditions connected to Modernism in television, film, radio, theatre, literature and the visual arts. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Jonathan Bignell

ISBN: 9781526178961
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Becketts afterlives is the first book-length study dedicated to posthumous adaptations of Becketts oeuvre. This collection analyses the remarkable diversity of creative engagements across different media and cultural contexts that have ensured the survival and continuing relevance of Becketts work in a constantly changing world.


(Paperback, 2nd edition)

By: Jonathan Bignell

ISBN: 9780719062056
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2002
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Using examples such as "Big Brother" and "Billy Elliot", Bignell offers a comprehensive, intelligent and readable introduction into the critical approach in contemporary media studies. This second edition includes sections on men's style magazines, docusoaps and "reality TV".


(Paperback)

By: Jonathan Bignell

ISBN: 9780719069338
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2005
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A collection of essays that examine landmark popular television drama from the last forty years, from 'Doctor Who' to 'The Office'. Contributors focus on programmes across the range of popular genres, from sitcoms to science fiction, gothic horror and children's drama -- .


(Paperback)

By: Jonathan Bignell

ISBN: 9780719065477
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2004
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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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. -- .