English Filming, English Writing

Name: English Filming, English Writing
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ISBN: 9780253221773

ISBN-10: 0253221773

ISBN-13: 9780253221773

Edition: 2010

Authors: Jefferson Hunter

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Jefferson Hunter examines English films and television dramas as they relate to English culture -- especially literary culture -- in the 20th century. He traces themes such as the influence of U.S. crime drama on English film, and film adaptations of literary works as they appear in screen work from the 1930s to the present day. The Archers' A Canterbury Tale and Humphrey Jennings's documentary Listen to Britain are analyzed in the context of village pageants and other wartime explorations of Englishness at risk. English crime dramas -- culminating in Dennis Potter's television drama The Singing Detective -- are set against the writings of George Orwell, while a famous line from Noel Coward…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 4/5/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: By Way of Hanif Kureishi and Stephen Frears



Wartime Pageantry


The Archers on Pilgrimage


Screen Processions and Village Pageants


The Documentary Pageant: Jennings's Listen to Britain



American Gangsters, English Crime Films, And Dennis Potter


George Orwell versus James Hadley Chase


Contending with America


In Search of an English Crime Film


The Singing Detective as Summa Criminologica



Two Texts to Screen


How to Adapt Dickens, and How Not to Do It


Ishiguro and Merchant-Ivory, Upstairs and Downstairs



The Strange Potencies of Music


Rawsthorne and Rachmaninoff


Rolling Out the Barrel, Looking Up and Laughing


Distant Voices, Lip-Synched Lives


Conclusion: By Way of Tony Harrison and Alan Bennett


Notes


Index