| Description |
ix, 230 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-222) and index. |
| Contents |
Production. Introduction ; Television and video aesthetics ; The significance of film in Beckett on film : play ; Studios, sound-stages and theatre ; Monochrome and colour ; Sound, music and voice : dissociated conventions -- Broadcasting contexts. Introduction ; Television forms ; Drama, arts and video art ; Avant gardes in the cinema ; Public Service Broadcasting and the value of Beckett ; Television, plays and DVDs : Beckett on film -- Institutions and authorship. Introduction ; Staging authorship ; Beckett and conventions of television authorship ; Collaboration and networking ; Authenticity, identity and performance ; Beckettian 'signatures' in film ; Posthumous reverence -- Intertexts. Introduction. Beckett among the modernists ; Film and silent cinema ; Picture planes and performance spaces ; Learning to see ; Viewer and viewed -- Evaluations. Introduction ; Broadcasting and conceptions of audience ; Beckett and television criticism ; The place of the viewer ; Schedules and audiences ; Reviewers and commentators ; The reception of Film : author, director, and star ; Audience, form and the politics of television drama -- Afterword : the lessons of history. |
| Summary |
Using original research from BBC archives and manuscript sources, this book provides perspectives on the relationship between Beckett's television dramas and the wider television culture of Britain and Europe. |
| Subject |
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Television adaptations.
|
|
Television adaptations.
|
|
Television plays.
|
|
Television plays, English.
|
| ISBN |
9780719064203 (hbk.) |
|
0719064201 (hbk.) |
|
9780719064210 |
|
071906421X |
|
