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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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A comprehensive analysis of Whedon'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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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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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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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, Kelly's Heroes, The Sweeney, Reilly - Ace of Spies and Edge of Darkness. Based on original research and extensive interviews with Troy Kennedy Martin himself. -- .

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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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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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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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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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This is the first-ever critical work on Jack Rosenthal, the highly regarded BAFTA-winning British television dramatist. His career began with Coronation Street in the 1960s and he became famous for such plays as The Knowledge, The Chain, Spend, Spend, Spend and Bar Mitzvah Boy, as well as the pilot for the series Londons Burning.

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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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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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A comprehensive analysis of Whedon'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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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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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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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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Tony Garnett is the first book-length study of one of the most respected 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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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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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, Kellys 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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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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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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This book-length study of Sally Wainwright's television, including analysis of globally recognised television series such as Happy Valley, Last Tango in Halifax, and Gentleman Jack, considers Wainwright's work in terms of genre, melodrama and through the concept of emotion.

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This collection explores the presence within television of the epic and the everyday, with reference to a range of fictional television programming, including episodic series and serial dramas, sitcoms, science-fiction, spy dramas, childrens TV and detective shows.

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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.