Dennis Potter was een Engelse dramaturgo wiens werken vaak fantasie met realiteit, het persoonlijke met het sociale vermengden. Hij stond bekend om zijn kenmerkende stijl, die vaak elementen uit de populaire cultuur en muziek gebruikte om de dramatische spanning te verhogen. Potter's toneelstukken kenmerkten zich door experimenten met dramatische middelen, zoals het doorbreken van de vierde wand en het gebruik van volwassen acteurs om kinderen te portretteren. Zijn werk, vaak gebaseerd op persoonlijke ervaringen en maatschappelijke thema's, liet een onuitwisbare indruk achter in het Britse televisiedrama.
Potter presents the delightful script of the much-acclaimed BBC/PBS series. It is the unfolding tale of Philip Marlow, a bedridden writer of detective stories, whose real-life memories mix with pop culture fantasies as he lies in a London hospital.
If one writer embodies the unique character of British television drama, it is Dennis Potter. Pennies from Heaven and The Singing Detective amply demonstrate how far he has pushed the frontiers of television drama. In the course of this book, British television's pre-eminent playwright - latterly a novelist and film-maker - talks with passionate erudition, disarming candour and acerbic wit about the early influences that shaped him and led to his pioneering use of non-naturalism to his self-reflexive subversion of film and TV cliches, his controversial approach to sex, politics, religion and the double-edged puritanism of the English condition. The book presents a remarkable portrait of a man for whom writing is, first and foremost, a vocation.
Psykologisk thriller om et ægtepar, hvis trygge forhold krakelerer, da manden mister sit job, og begge kastes ud i en psykotisk tilstand
Blackeyes is a literary thriller of immense subtlety and power. Writer Maurice James Kingsley is seventy-seven. It is twenty years since he has produced a novel, but when he does, his picture of London's demi-monde, seen through the career of the model known as Blackeyes, is the surprise hit of the season. But, when life starts to imitate fiction, the plot takes a new and sinister twist...
The Bedside 'Guardian' 27 (1977-78). Introd. by Dennis Dennis The Bedside 'Guardian' 27 (1977-78). Introd. by Dennis William Collins & FIRST First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by William Collins & Sons, 1978. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good with light shelf wear. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.Seller 325012 History We Buy Books! Collections - Libraries - Estates - Individual Titles. Message us if you have books to sell!