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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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Text | Request in advance | PR6066.O77 P68 1993 | Off-site |
Details
- 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