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Potter on Potter

Title
Potter on Potter / edited by Graham Fuller.
Author
Potter, Dennis.
Publication
London ; Boston : Faber and Faber, 1993.

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Additional Authors
Fuller, Graham.
Description
xviii, 171 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
  • 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.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes filmography (p. [143]-163), bibliographical references (p. [164]-165) and index.
Contents
Introduction / Graham Fuller -- 1. The Child of the Forest -- 2. The Single Plays: from The Confidence Course to Cream in my Coffee -- 3. In Other Writers' Heads: Casanova, Late Call, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tender is the Night, Christabel -- 4. Serials with Songs: Pennies from Heaven, The Singing Detective, Lipstick on your Collar -- 5. Films and Stage Plays: Pennies from Heaven, Brimstone and Treacle, Gorky Park, Dreamchild, Track 29, Sufficient Carbohydrate -- 6. Director and Novelist: Blackeyes, Secret Friends -- 7. Conclusion.
ISBN
057116367X :
LCCN
93240462
OCLC
  • 28135778
  • ocm28135778
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries