Experimental British television
Laura Mulvery (Editor), Jamie Sexton (Editor)
Throughout its history, British television has found a place, if only in its margins, for programmes that consciously worked to expand the boundaries of television aesthetics. Even in the present climate of increased academic interest in television history, its experimental tradition has generally either been approached generically or been lost within the assumption that television is simply a mass medium. Avaible for the first time in paperback, Experimental British television uncovers the history of experimental television, bringing back forgotten programmes in addition to looking at relatively more privileged artists or programme strands from fresh perspectives. The book therefore goes against the grain of dominant television studies, which tends to place the medium within the flow of the 'everyday', in order to scrutinise those productions that attempted to make more serious interventions within the medium
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9780719098574, 9780719098567, 0719098572, 0719098564
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EXPERIMENTAL BRITISH TELEVISION; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: experimental British television: Laura Mulvey; 1. 'Creative in its own right': the Langham Group and the search for a new television drama: John Hill; 2. 'And now for your Sunday night experimental drama . . .': experimentation and Armchair Theatre: Helen Wheatley; 3. A 'new drama for television'?: Diary of a Young Man¹: John Hill 4. 'The very new can only come from the very old': Ken Russell, national culture and the possibility of experimental television at the BBC in the 1960s: Kay Dickinson5. From art to avant-garde? Television, formalism and the arts documentary in 1960s Britain: Jamie Sexton; 6. An experiment in television drama: John McGrath's The Adventures of Frank: Lez Cooke; 7. Don't fence me in: The Singing Detective and the synchronicity of indeterminacy: Catrin Prys; 8. Visions: a Channel 4 experiment 1982-85: John Ellis; 9. Experimenting on air: UK artists' film on television: A. L. Rees 10. Experimental music video and television: K. J. Donnelly11. 'Yes, it's war!': Chris Morris and comedy's representational strategies: Brett Mills; Bibliography; Index
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