Troy Kennedy Martin [[electronic resource] /] / Lez Cooke

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465677503321
• Autore: Cooke Lez
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 1-84779-588-9; 1-78170-205-5; 1-84779-474-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Collana: The television series
• Disciplina: 791.450233092
• Soggetti: Television broadcasting - Great Britain; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Copyright; Contents; General editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Biographical sketch; 2. Single plays; 3. Experiments in television drama; 4. Drama series; 5. Drama serials; 6. The hostile waters of Britishtelevision in a deregulated age; Appendix: list of television programmes,feature fi lms, unproduced scripts andscreenplays, awards and publications; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This is the first full-length study of the screenwriter Troy Kennedy Martin, whose work for film and television includes Z Cars, The Italian Job, Kelly's Heroes, The Sweeney, Reilly - Ace of Spies and Edge of Darkness. With a career spanning six decades, Troy Kennedy Martin has seen the rise and fall of the television dramatist, making his debut in the era of studio-based television drama in the late 1950s prior to the transition to filmed drama (for which he argued in a famous manifesto), as the television play was gradually replaced by popular series and serials, for which Kennedy Martin did