Potter on Potter

Name: Potter on Potter
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SKU: 9780571170463
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By Dennis Potter

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Potter on Potter by Dennis Potter is a fascinating insight into the creative mind of this acclaimed television dramatist. The book comprises a series of interviews where Potter discusses his innovative approach to storytelling and his often controversial yet highly influential work. This memoir provides readers with a personal look at the challenges and triumphs that shaped his career and legacy.
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You might enjoy this book if you're fascinated by the mind behind some of television's most innovative dramas. Delving into the creative world of Dennis Potter, it offers personal insights into his thought processes, struggles, and inspirations, making it perfect for fans of his work or those interested in the interplay between life and creative expression.

Dennis Potter, British playwright, novelist and film-maker, talks about the early influences that shaped him and his career in this book that looks at Potter's pioneering use of non-naturalism, his self-reflexive subversion of film and TV cliches and his approach to sex, politics and religion.

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Britain's pre-eminent playwright, novelist and film-maker, Dennis Potter, talks with passionate erudition, disarming candour and acerbic wit about the influences that shaped his career and his work.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780571170463

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 June 1994

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Illustration: 60 black and white illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 159g

Pages: 192

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Dennis Potter Non-Fiction

About the Author

Dennis Potter was born in 1935 in Gloucestershire. After National Service he won a place at New College, Oxford where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He became one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed dramatists. His plays for television include Blue Remembered Hills (1979), Brimstone and Treacle (commissioned in 1975 but banned until 1987), the series Pennies from Heaven (1978), The Singing Detective (1986), Blackeyes (1989) and Lipstick on Your Collar (1993). He also wrote novels, stage plays and screenplays. Seeing the Blossom, his final television interview, was published in 1994. He died in June 1994.