Troy Kennedy Martin

by Cooke, Lez

• ISBN13: 9780719067037
• ISBN10: 0719067030
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-05-30
• Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Summary

This is the first full-length study of the screenwriter Troy Kennedy Martin, whose work for film and television includes Z Cars, The Italian Job, Kelly's Heroes, The Sweeney, Reilly - Ace of Spies and Edge of Darkness. With a career spanning six decades Troy Kennedy Martin has seen the rise and fall of the television dramatist, making his debut in the era of studio-based television drama in the late 1950s prior to the transition to filmed drama (for which he argued in a famous manifesto) as the television play was gradually replaced by popular series and serials, for which Kennedy Martin did some of his best work.Written in an easily accessible style, this book will appeal to anyone with an interest in television drama, screenwriting, and the history of British television over the last fifty years.

Author Biography

Lez Cooke is Honorary Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Table of Contents

Introduction * Biographical sketch * Single plays * Experiments in television drama * Drama series * Drama serials * The hostile waters of British television in a deregulated age * List of television programmes, feature films, unproduced scripts and screenplays, awards and publications