Dennis Potter was a most remarkable, idiosyncratic, and influential screen playwright, writing such shows as "The Singing Detective" and "Pennies From Heaven" for British TV during the last half of the 20th century. In dramatizing the anxiety of his own inner journey, he articulated for the millions watching his shows their own distresses about the fast-changing cultural environment. The Passion of Dennis Potter represents the first collection of international essays on this celebrated playwright. Along with essays from the world’s leading scholars and experts on Potter, there are personal memoirs from friends and colleagues who knew and worked with him. The result is an impressive collection which expertly dissects the themes and oeuvre of one of the major contemporary figures of British drama and literature, tracing his changing class, religious, and personal values from his debut in 1965 right up to his death from cancer in 1994.
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Vernon W. Gras is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at George Mason University.
John R. Cook is Senior Lecturer in Media at De Montfort University, Leicester, England.
John R. Cook is Senior Lecturer in Media at De Montfort University, Leicester, England.
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THE PASSION OF DENNIS POTTER IS A BOOK THAT CONCERNS itself with one of the most vivid and remarkable writers to emerge from contemporary, postwar Britain: one who deliberately chose to make his career out of a world of reflecting surfaces and whose work, as this collection will show, can be viewed from a "million different angles," yet each serving to reflect and illuminate all the others. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
socialist allegory, singing detective, dialogical ethics, pennies from heaven, published scripts, television dramatist, old freighter, tough detective, psoriatic arthropathy, stylized dance, interior drama, scholarship boy, confined bodies, buffalo roam Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dennis Potter, Cold Lazarus, New York, Raymond Williams, Nigel Barton, Graham Fuller, Sugar Bush, Seeing the Blossom, Forest of Dean, Kenith Trodd, Daniel Feeld, New Statesman, Sunday Times, Glen Creeber, Arthur Parker, Peter Stead, Richard Hoggart, Daily Herald, Double Dare, Follow the Yellow Brick Road, Manchester University Press, Channel Four, Garden of Eden, John Cook, The Glittering Coffin New!
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THE PASSION OF DENNIS POTTER IS A BOOK THAT CONCERNS itself with one of the most vivid and remarkable writers to emerge from contemporary, postwar Britain: one who deliberately chose to make his career out of a world of reflecting surfaces and whose work, as this collection will show, can be viewed from a "million different angles," yet each serving to reflect and illuminate all the others. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
socialist allegory, singing detective, dialogical ethics, pennies from heaven, published scripts, television dramatist, old freighter, tough detective, psoriatic arthropathy, stylized dance, interior drama, scholarship boy, confined bodies, buffalo roam Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dennis Potter, Cold Lazarus, New York, Raymond Williams, Nigel Barton, Graham Fuller, Sugar Bush, Seeing the Blossom, Forest of Dean, Kenith Trodd, Daniel Feeld, New Statesman, Sunday Times, Glen Creeber, Arthur Parker, Peter Stead, Richard Hoggart, Daily Herald, Double Dare, Follow the Yellow Brick Road, Manchester University Press, Channel Four, Garden of Eden, John Cook, The Glittering Coffin New!
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- Lipstick on Your Collar by Dennis Potter on 23 pages
- Karaoke and Cold Lazarus by Dennis Potter on 22 pages
- Brimstone and Treacle by Sarah Potter on 14 pages
- Potter on Potter (Directors on Directors) by Dennis Potter on 13 pages
- Dennis Potter: A Life on Screen by John R. Cook on 12 pages
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