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Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
Editors' Introduction
1. Contexts; Tony Garnett
PART I: INSTITUTIONS AND TECHNOLOGIES
Editors' Introduction to Part I
2. Sydney Newman and the 'Golden Age'; Shaun Sutton
3. Television Drama Series: a Producer's View; Irene Shubik
4. TV Drama: Then and Now; John McGrath
5. Writing Television Drama - Then and Now; Andrew Davies
6 Brookside: The Technology Backstory; Phil Redmond
7 Plot Inflation in Greater Weatherfield: Coronation Street in the 1990s; Billy Smart
8 Persuaded? The Impact of Changing Production Contexts on Three Adaptations of Persuasion; Sarah Cardwell
PART II: FORMATS AND GENRES
Editors' Introduction to Part II
9. 'The Age of Innocence'; Alan Plater
10. Playing Shops, Shopping Plays: The Effect of the Internal Market on Television Drama; David Edgar
11. 'A Hero Mumsy': Parenting, Power, and Production Changes in The Sarah Jane Adventures; Victoria Byard
12. Downton Abbey: Reinventing the British Costume Drama; James Chapman
13. What Do Actors Do When They Act? John Caughie
CODA: Timothy West discusses 'Acting on Stage: Acting on Screen', followed by extracts from the discussion after his and John Caughie's presentations.
PART III: REPRESENTATIONS
14. The 1970s: Regional Variations; Barry Hanson
15. 'What Truth is there in this Story?': The Dramatisation of Northern Ireland; Edward Braun
16. Moving Waterloo Road from Rochdale to Greenock: Exploring a Sense of Place in Drama Series; Cameron Roach
17. Too Secret for Words: Coded Dissent in Female-authored Wednesday Plays; Madeleine Macmurraugh-Kavanagh
18. 'Ah! Our very own Juliet Bravo, or is it Jill Gascoine?' Ashes to Ashes and Representations of Gender; Ben Lamb
19. Power Plays: Gender, Genre, and Lynda La Plante; Julia Hallam
Editors' Conclusion
Select Bibliography
Index.
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British television drama : past, present and future. ISBN 9781137327574. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
