Trevor Griffiths

Hardback

Main Details

Title Trevor Griffiths
Authors and Contributors      By (author) John Tulloch
SeriesThe Television Series
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:208
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
Category/GenreTelevision
Literary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - plays and playwrights
ISBN/Barcode 9780719068584
ClassificationsDewey:822.914
Audience
Further/Higher Education
Undergraduate
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Illustrations Illustrations, black & white

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 1 January 2007
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Trevor Griffiths has been a critical force in British television writing for over three decades. His successes have included the series Bill Brand (1976), his adaptations of Sons and Lovers and The Cherry Orchard (1981) and his television plays, The Comedians (1979), Hope in the Year Two (1994) and Food for Ravens (1997). During his creative life he has negotiated the issues of genre, politics, identity, class, history, memory and televisual form with a sustained creativity and integrity second to none. And he has parallelled this career with one as equally as eminent in the theatre, as well as the slightly more problematic forays into film-writing for Warren Beatty's Reds and Ken Loach's Fatherland. John Tulloch's incisive and wide-ranging volume is a perfect entry point not only for students of Griffiths' oeuvre, but also for anyone entering the discourses of television, media and cultural studies. -- .

Author Biography

John Tulloch is Research Professor of Sociology and Communications at Brunel University -- .