The Classic Serial on Television and Radio

The classic serial, invented by BBC Radio Drama sixty years ago, survived and adapted itself to television, the arrival of colour and the global market in what has become a flood of classics with all channels competing for ratings and overseas sales. This richly detailed book traces these developments and analyses the genre's response to social, economic, technical and cultural changes, which have re-shaped it into the form we recognise today. The book contains considerable interview material with performers and media professionals.

Humor & Entertainment

Giddings, Robert

Selby, Keith

Movies

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

The book takes as its theme the relationship between literature and the contemporary means of production and distribution collectively termed 'the media' - in particular, film and television. The intention of the book is to explore and evaluate the mutual opportunities and restrictions in this relationship. In the grammar of our culture there seems to be an accepted opinion that print is superior in terms of cultural production to film, radio or television, that to read a book is somehow a 'higher' cultural activity than seeing a play on television or seeing a film. By the same token, a novel is a 'superior' work of art to film or television. The longer perspective reveals that traditionally there always is a greater respect paid to the previous mode of literary production - poetry was superior to drama, poetic drama was superior to the novel, and film attained cult and classic status initially over television.

Screening The Novel: The Theory And Practice Of Literary Dramatization

Literature And Imperialism (Insights)

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Radio

Reference

For the people who fought in it, the World War I was a cataclysm. The sheer scale of its horror and carnage transformed their lives and attitudes to an extent that has coloured the way in which every subsequent generation has thought of war. Nothing shows this more clearly than the work of the poets, writers and artists of the trenches - the creators of a cultural heritage that reflects their hopes, fears, doubts, initial optimism and ultimate cynicism. Year by year, from the heady patriotism of August 1914 to the last war-weary moments before the final cease-fire over four years later, this book reveals the innermost thoughts and feelings of the writers who voiced the aspirations of a doomed generation. Each chapter contains a commentary to put the work of the poets into the context of the time, plus a selection of poems. Contemporary paintings by war artists such as Nash and Spencer, cartoons, memorabilia and photographs provide a visual insight which amplifies this record of the war years.

The War Poets

History & Criticism

Random House Value Publishing

<p>Offers profiles of Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and Edmund Blunden and discusses the poetry produced by those involved in the First World War</p>

War Poets

Crown

Film Quiz (Longman Quiz Book)

Longman Trade/Caroline House

<p>Book by Bold, Alan, Giddings, Robert</p>

Who Was Really Who in Fiction

BOLD, Alan

The years between the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 are sometimes described as 'The Long Peace', but there were in fact British soldiers fighting somewhere in the world throughout the whole of that period, usually in an effort to restore order in far-flung parts of the Empire 'upon which the sun never set'.Although these campaigns have been well documented by numerous historians, Robert Giddings, well known as author, journalist and writer for radio and television, here adopts an entirely new approach and relies largely on first-hand accounts to show not merely what happened but what it was actually like to be there. His sources are many and varied and not confined to the soldiers' own records. Nothing, for instance, could surpass in vividness Florentia Sale's brilliant account of the terrible retreat from Kabul in 1842.The book contains eye-witness accounts from the following campaigns and minor wars: Maratha, Gurkha, Burmese, Ashanti, Opium, Afghan, Maori, Sikh, Kaffir, Persian, Abyssinian, Zulu, Boer, Egyptian, Sudanese and Matabele. The list alone shows how busy the British soldier was throughout the nineteenth century. The text itself brilliantly recaptures the nature of soldiering in that era.

Imperial Echoes: Eye-Witness Accounts of Victoria's Little Wars

Pen & Sword

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