Potter on Potter - Rilegato

Potter, Dennis

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ISBN 10: 057116367X ISBN 13: 9780571163670

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 1993

Riassunto

If one writer embodies the unique character of British television drama, it is Dennis Potter. Pennies from Heaven and The Singing Detective amply demonstrate how far he has pushed the frontiers of television drama.
In the course of this book, British television's pre-eminent playwright - latterly a novelist and film-maker - talks with passionate erudition, disarming candour and acerbic wit about the early influences that shaped him and led to his pioneering use of non-naturalism to his self-reflexive subversion of film and TV cliches, his controversial approach to sex, politics, religion and the double-edged puritanism of the English condition. The book presents a remarkable portrait of a man for whom writing is, first and foremost, a vocation.

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L'autore:

Dennis Potter was born in 1935 in Gloucestershire. After National Service he won a place at New College, Oxford where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He became one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed dramatists. His plays for television include Blue Remembered Hills (1979), Brimstone and Treacle (commissioned in 1975 but banned until 1987), the series Pennies from Heaven (1978), The Singing Detective (1986), Blackeyes (1989) and Lipstick on Your Collar (1993). He also wrote novels, stage plays and screenplays. Seeing the Blossom, his final television interview, was published in 1994. He died in June 1994.

Product Description:

Book by Potter Dennis Fuller Graham

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• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 057116367X
• ISBN 13: 9780571163670
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 171
• Redattore: Fuller Graham