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Lynda La Plante
Series: The Television Series
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This critical introduction will engage readers interested in television history, gender studies, and screenwriting, as well as fans of British drama and those fascinated by the cultural shifts in late twentieth-century UK media.
The first account of the television drama of Lynda La Plante, Britain's most successful and well known screenwriter, whose work is central to understanding changes that shook the UK television industry in the late twentieth century
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Lynda La Plante is Britain's most successful and well-known screenwriter and the first woman to win the prestigious Dennis Potter writer's award. Attracting millions of viewers, the popular and critical success of La Plante's work is central to understanding changes that shook the UK television industry in the late twentieth century.
This critical introduction, the first account of her work, focuses on three innovative serials: Widows (ITV, 1983), Prime Suspect (ITV 1991) and Trial and Retribution (ITV 1997). In each chapter, questions of gender and genre, acting and stardom, and authorship and value are mapped against the changing relationship between women and the television industry.
The final chapter traces La Plante's metamorphosis from 'just a writer for hire' to the astute businesswoman she has become, through a focus on the trans-national appeal of dramas such as Killer Net (C4 1997) and Bella Mafia (CBS 1997).
Series: The Television Series
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ISBN: 9780719065491
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 30 November 2011
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Illustration: Illustrations, black & white
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 138.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 213g
Pages: 176
About the Author
Julia Hallam is Reader in Communication Studies at the University of Liverpool
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