Trevor Griffiths

by Tulloch, John

• ISBN13: 9780719068591
• ISBN10: 0719068592
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-30
• Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Summary

Trevor Griffiths has been a critical force in British television writing for over three decades. His successes have included the series Bill Brand(1976), his adaptations of Sons and Loversand The Cherry Orchard(1981) and his television plays, The Comedians(1979), Hope in the Year Two(1994), and Food for Ravens(1997). During his creative life, he has negotiated the issues of genre, politics, identity, class, history, memory, and televisual form with a sustained creativity and integrity second to none. And he has parallelled this career with one equally as eminent in the theater, as well as the slightly more problematic forays into film-writing for Warren Beatty's Redsand Ken Loach's Fatherland. John Tulloch's incisive and wide-ranging volume is a perfect entry point, not only for students of Griffiths' oeuvre, but also for anyone entering the discourses of television, media, and cultural studies.

Author Biography

John Tulloch is Research Professor of Sociology and Communications at Brunel University.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Trevor Griffiths and cultural studies: from New Left to Derrida, The Party to Oi for England and Food for Ravens

Between television and theory industries: from Occupations and Through the Night to Sons and Lovers and The Gulf Between Us

In the studio: making and receiving Trevor GriffithsâÇÖ The Cherry Orchard

Griffiths reviewed: the print media and The Cherry Orchard, Through the Night, Bill Brand and Country

GriffithsâÇÖ key âÇ politicalâÇÖ texts: Country and Food for Ravens

Trevor GriffithsâÇÖ television âÇ historiesâÇÖ: The Last Place on Earth and Hope in the Year Two

Relishing conflict in an audience: Trevor GriffithsâÇÖ Comedians

Griffiths unplugged: Such Impossibilities and March Time

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