Television Drama Realism, Modernism, and British Culture [Hardcover]

Television Dramaoffers an account of British television drama from its origins in live studio drama in the prewar and immediate postwar years, through the Golden Age of the single play of the 1960s and 1970s, to its convergence with an emerging British art cinema in the 1990s.

Introduction: 'serious drama'
Early television and television drama
The making of the 'Golden Age'
The rush of the real: an aesthetics of immediacy
Art television: authorship and irony
Modernism, or, Not non-naturalism
Television drama and the art film: the logic of convergence
Small pleasures: adaptation and the past
Epilogue: the return of value

John Caughieis Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow. He is the author ofCompanion to British and Irish Cinema(with Kevin Rockett), and on the editorial board of Screen.