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Acting in British Television

Acting in British Television
Author: Tom Cantrell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2017-09-16
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1137470224

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This fascinating text offers the first in-depth exploration of acting processes in British television. Focused around 16 new interviews with celebrated British actors, including Rebecca Front, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Ken Stott, Penelope Wilton and John Hannah, this rich resource delves behind the scenes of a range of British television programmes in order to find out how actors build their characters for television, how they work on set and location, and how they create their critically acclaimed portrayals. The book looks at actors' work across four diverse but popular genres: soap opera; police and medical drama; comedy; and period drama. Its insightful discussion of hit programmes and its critical and contextual post-interview analysis, makes the text an essential read for students across television and film studies, theatre, performance and acting, and cultural and media studies, as well as academics and anyone interested in acting and British television.


Exploring Television Acting

Exploring Television Acting
Author: Tom Cantrell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2018-05-31
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1474248578

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The first collection of its kind to bring together scholarly and practitioner perspectives, this book analyses the experiences, skills and techniques of actors when working on television. Featuring eleven chapters by internationally distinguished researchers and actor trainers, this collection examines the acting processes and resulting performances of some of the most acclaimed television actors. Topics include: studio and location realism; actor training for television; actor well-being in the television industry; performance in reality television and British and Irish actors in contemporary US television and film. The book also contains case studies examining the work of Emmy-award-winning actor Viola Davis and the iconic character of Gene Hunt in Life on Mars (BBC, 2006-2007).


The changing spaces of television acting

The changing spaces of television acting
Author: Richard Hewett
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2017-08-17
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1526115530

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This book provides a historical overview and then-and-now comparison of performing for British television drama. By examining changing acting styles from distinct eras of television production – studio realism and location realism - it makes a unique contribution to both television and performance studies, unpacking the various determinants that have combined to influence how performers work in the medium. The book compares the original versions of The Quatermass Experiment(BBC, 1953), Doctor Who (BBC, 1963–89) and Survivors (BBC, 1975–77) with their respective modern-day re-makes, unpacking the effects of the shift from multi-camera studio to single-camera location production. Textual analysis is combined with extensive archival research into production process and reception, alongside interviews with numerous actors and production personnel from more than sixty years of television production.


British Television Drama

British Television Drama
Author: J. Bignell
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2014-05-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137327588

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Featuring leading scholars of British television drama and noted writers and producers from the television industry, this new edition of British Television Drama evaluates past and present TV fiction since the 1960s, and considers its likely future.


Boxed Sets

Boxed Sets
Author: Jeremy Ridgman
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1998
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781860205194

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The essays in this collection provide a wide-ranging examination of how drama and theater are represented on British broadcast television.


British Television Drama

British Television Drama
Author: Lez Cooke
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2015-04-09
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1844578968

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This widely-respected history of British television drama is an indispensable guide to the significant developments in the area; from its beginnings on the BBC in the 1930s and 40s to its position in the twenty-first century, as television enters a multichannel digital era. Embracing the complete spectrum of television drama, Lez Cooke places programmes in their social, political and industrial contexts, and surveys the key dramas, writers, producers and directors. Thoroughly revised and updated, this second edition includes new images and case studies, new material on British television drama before 1936, an expanded bibliography and a substantial new chapter that explores the renaissance in the quality, variety and social ambition of television drama in Britain since 2002. Comprehensive and accessible, this book will be of value to anyone interested in the rich history of British television and modern drama.


Experimental British television

Experimental British television
Author: Laura Mulvey
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2015-07-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0719098564

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Throughout its history, British television has found a place, if only in its margins, for programmes that consciously worked to expand the boundaries of television aesthetics. Even in the present climate of increased academic interest in television history, its experimental tradition has generally either been approached generically or been lost within the assumption that television is simply a mass medium. Avaible for the first time in paperback, Experimental British television uncovers the history of experimental television, bringing back forgotten programmes in addition to looking at relatively more privileged artists or programme strands from fresh perspectives. The book therefore goes against the grain of dominant television studies, which tends to place the medium within the flow of the ‘everyday’, in order to scrutinise those productions that attempted to make more serious interventions within the medium.


Adapting Television Drama

Adapting Television Drama
Author: Christopher Hogg
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2022-01-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1137501774

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This book explores adaptation in its various forms in contemporary television drama. It considers the mechanics of adaptation as an ever-more prevalent form of production, most notably in the reworking of literary sources for television. It also explores the broader process through which the television industry as a whole is currently making necessary adaptations in how it tells stories, especially in relation to important concerns of equality, diversity and inclusion. Offering and analysing 16 original interviews with leading British television producers, writers, directors, production designers, casting directors and actors, and with a particular focus on female and/or minority-ethnic industry perspectives, the book examines some of the key professional and creative approaches behind television adaptations today. The book connects these industry insights to the existing conceptual and critical frameworks of television studies and adaptation studies, illuminating the unique characteristics of television adaptation as a material mode of production, and revealing television itself as an inherently adaptive artform.


Transatlantic Television Drama

Transatlantic Television Drama
Author: Matt Hills
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2019-01-11
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 019066312X

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"This collection explores the current wave of US/UK television dramas, focusing on industry strategies, performance styles, issues of 'quality,' and audience receptions. It covers key programs including Black Mirror, Downton Abbey, Game of Thrones and Sherlock. Issues of national identity, streaming services, and transnational fan cultures are all explored"


A sense of place

A sense of place
Author: Lez Cooke
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2018-02-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1526129825

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This pioneering study examines regional British television drama from its beginnings on the BBC and ITV in the 1950s to the arrival of Channel Four in 1982. It discusses the ways in which regionalism, regional culture and regional identity have been defined, outlines the history of regional broadcasting in the UK, and includes two detailed case studies – of Granada Television and BBC English Regions Drama – representing contrasting examples of regional television drama during what is often described as the ‘golden age’ of British television. The conclusion brings the study up to date by discussing recent developments in regional drama production, and by considering future possibilities. Written in a scholarly but accessible style, the book uncovers a forgotten history of British television drama that will be of interest to lecturers and students of media and cultural studies, as well as the general reader with an interest in the history of British television.