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A History and Interpretive Analysis of Play for Today, (BBC1, 1970-84).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A History and Interpretive Analysis of Play for Today, (BBC1, 1970-84)./
Author:	May, Thomas William.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2023,
Description:	541 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-06, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-06B.
Subject:	Cold War. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30725851
ISBN:	9798381016925

A History and Interpretive Analysis of Play for Today, (BBC1, 1970-84).
May, Thomas William.

A History and Interpretive Analysis of Play for Today, (BBC1, 1970-84). - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023 - 541 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-06, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Northumbria at Newcastle (United Kingdom), 2023.

My thesis is a history and interpretive analysis of Play for Today (BBC1, 1970-84) (PfT). It is important, as this prestigious strand of one-off dramas has yet to receive any in-depth longitudinal studies.I have used a mix of qualitative and quantitative analysis: informed by my having watched or read Camera Scripts for over four-fifths of PfT. I have used archival sources from the BBC Written Archives Centre and digital archives, alongside selected oral history testimony regarding PfT from its practitioners.PfT has been valued as emblematic of a TV 'Golden Age', and an equally lost era of cultural democratisation in Britain. It made artful uses of video and film aesthetics, harnessing both to create vivid, human-centric one-off dramas that were generally highly valued by critics and audiences for their toughness and variety. PfT represented London and Northern Ireland frequently, and also Scotland and Northern England more from 1974. However, PfT generally neglected Wales and the North East of England. Its representations of nonmetropolitan Britain were variously downbeat and upbeat, reflecting deep unease at, or approval of, aspects of contemporaneous social change. PfT represented working-class men especially richly in the mid-1970s, when it was also often male-centric, but it included significantly more women writers from 1977-82. In its later years, PfT built on its earlier deep insights into masculine workspaces to include varied feminist dramas, which critiqued male violence. While it had relatively few Black or Asian creators, its many gay dramatists and anarchistic Jewish playwrights contributed to its humanist range. PfTs like In the Beautiful Caribbean and Even Solomonwere more representationally advanced than BBCTV's discussion programmes.My findings reveal an original history and interpretive analysis of PfT, in its many varied contexts. They are of considerable interest to TV historians and also TV drama practitioners today.

ISBN: 9798381016925Subjects--Topical Terms:

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A History and Interpretive Analysis of Play for Today, (BBC1, 1970-84).
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