The Intimate Screen - Early British Television Drama

This book challenges the idea that early television drama consisted of static plays relayed from the theatre. It draws on new archival evidence, including an analysis of the groundbreaking BBC production of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954). The book demonstrates that television drama pioneers produced a diverse and innovative range of plays.

List of contents

• The Intimate Screen


• The End of the Photographed Stage Play: Television Drama, 1936-39


• The Illustrated Broadcast? Defining Television Drama, 1946-50


• 'Lost not cosy': Expanding the Screen of Television Drama, 1951-55


• Conclusion


• Index

About the author

Jason Jacobs is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick

Summary

This book challenges the idea that early television drama consisted of static plays relayed from the theatre. It draws on new archival evidence, including an analysis of the groundbreaking BBC production of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954). The book demonstrates that television drama pioneers produced a diverse and innovative range of plays.

Product details

• Authors: Jason Jacobs, Jason (Lecturer in Film and Television Studies Jacobs, Jacobs Jason
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780198742340
• ISBN: 978-0-19-874234-0
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 242 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 491 g
• Illustrations: 7 figures
• Series: Oxford Television Studies; Oxford Television Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; England, History: specific events & topics, Television, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, English, HISTORY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Films, cinema, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, History: specific events and topics, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Literary studies: plays and playwrights, History of Performing Arts