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Jack Rosenthal
Jack Rosenthal by Sue Vice Manchester University Press 2009 £50 hb 202pp for European Journal of Communication by Helena Sheehan Dublin City University The Television Series is a collection of books advancing television studies by focusing on the oeuvre of seminal writers of television drama. Already published are books on such authors as Alan Bennett, Trevor Griffiths, Tony Garnett, Andrew Davies, Alan Clarke, Troy Kennedy Martin and Lynda La Plante. In reviewing a number of earlier titles in the series, Robin Nelson has noted: Following a period in which the death of the author has been much vaunted, this new series tackles head-on the issue of authorial contribution ... This refreshing, overall approach allows due credit to be given to exceptional, creative individuals while fully recognizing that broadcast television production is a complex and collaborative industrial process over which no one individual can have total control ... The Television Series mobilizes a dialogue between different perspectives and critical approaches. In boldly celebrating the achievements of individuals, the accounts of careers also illustrate the collaborative process of television production and the powerplays and tensions involved in trying to articulate a distinctive vision. (Nelson 2007) Because of nature of television production, there is a complex dialectic and often tension of individual vision and creativity with other forces involved. This book captures that dynamic well. Both the series and this book make a useful contribution to television studies by focusing on the role played by certain key authors within the larger dynamics of television production. Jack Rosenthal (1931-2004) hailed from working class Manchester, descended from Russian Jewish immigrants who endured poverty and hard times. -
Jack Rosenthal Drama Scripts Collection
1 University of Sheffield Library. Special Collections and Archives Ref: MS 286 Title: Jack Rosenthal Drama Scripts Collection Scope: Television, film and theatre scripts, together with associated documents, by the contemporary dramatist Jack Rosenthal Dates: 1942-2001 (mainly 1961-2001) Level: Fonds Extent: 75 boxes Name of creator: Jack Morris Rosenthal (1931-2004) Administrative / biographical history: The collection consists of manuscript (typescript) copies of most of the scripts created by the contemporary dramatist Jack Rosenthal during a career of over 40 years of writing for television, the cinema and the theatre. Also included in the collection are related documents, including working notes, correspondence, press cuttings, together with some personal and other memorabilia. A number of videos of programmes made from the scripts are also available. Many scripts appear in several drafts, providing an insight into the way in which a dramatic work may be changed and adapted during the creative process between its original conception and its final published form. Not all the works represented here have been produced or performed, as often television and film companies will commission a script and then either not put it into production or not ultimately complete the process. Jack Morris Rosenthal, CBE, was born 8 September 1931 in Manchester to a Jewish family, both his parents, Sam and Leah, being employed in a raincoat factory. After attending Colne Grammar School he read English Language and Literature at the University of Sheffield, graduating B.A. in 1953. Following National Service in the Royal Navy, where he learned to translate Russian, he worked for a time in the promotion department of Granada Television, one of the recently formed ITV companies, before leaving to work in advertising. -
Book Reviews 91 Ongoing Discussion (In Helen
Book Reviews 91 ongoing discussion (in Helen Wheatley’s writing, for example, which is quoted at length here) of wildlife programming – with its high production values, exotic loca- tions and primetime slots – as exclusive and elitist and also critical of the genre’s appeal to the white middle-class audience. But, as he admits, the three audiences he selected for his research project were ‘largely white and predominantly middle class’ (p. 129). It is one thing to argue that historically wildlife programmes have been aimed at the white and middle class and quite another to hunt out the white and middle class to prove this. What stopped Austin from approaching a more demographically diverse group of viewers? This is, in conclusion, the disappointment of Watching the World: that it begins by identifying the lack of audience studies within documentary criticism but ultimately falls short of mapping out how documentary criticism can be reshaped by audience-based research in a meaningful way. Sue Vice, Jack Rosenthal. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2009. £50.00. 202 pp. Reviewed by: Helena Sheehan, Dublin City University The Television Series is a collection of books advancing television studies by focusing on the oeuvre of seminal writers of television drama. Already published are books on such authors as Alan Bennett, Trevor Griffiths, Tony Garnett, Andrew Davies, Alan Clarke, Troy Kennedy Martin and Lynda La Plante. In reviewing a number of earlier titles in the series, Robin Nelson has noted: Following a period in which the death of the author has been much vaunted, this new series tackles head-on the issue of authorial contribution. -
An Overview of the Film, Television, Video and Dvd Industries In
the STATS an overview of the film, television, video and DVD industries 1990 - 2003 contents THIS PDF IS FULLY NAVIGABLE BY USING THE “BOOKMARKS” FACILITY IN ADOBE ACROBAT READER Introduction by David Sharp . i Introduction to 1st edition (2003) by Ray Templeton . .ii Preface by Philip Wickham . .iii the STATS 1990 . .1 1991 . .14 1992 . 32 1993 . 54 1994 . .74 1995 . .92 1996 . .112 1997 . .136 1998 . .163 1999 . .188 2000 . .220 2001 . .251 2002 . .282 2003 . .310 Cumulative Tables . .341 Country Codes . .351 Bibliography . .352 Research: Erinna Mettler/Philip Wickham Design/Tabulation: Ian O’Sullivan Additional Research: Matt Ker Elena Marcarini Bibliography: Elena Marcarini © 2006 BFI INFORMATION SERVICES BFI NATIONAL LIBRARY 21 Stephen Street London W1T 1LN ISBN: 1-84457-017-7 Phil Wickham is an Information Officer in the Information Services Unit of the BFI National Library. He writes and lectures extensively on British film and television. Erinna Mettler is an Information Officer in the Information Services Unit of the National Library and has contributed to numerous publications. Ian O’Sullivan is also an Information Officer in the Information Services Unit of the BFI National Library and has designed a number of publications for the BFI. Information Services BFI National Library British Film Institute 21 Stephen Street London W1T 1LN Tel: + 44 (0) 20 7255 1444 Fax: + 44 (0) 20 7436 0165 Contact us at www.bfi.org.uk/ask with your film and television enquiries. Alternatively, telephone +44 (0) 20 7255 1444 and ask for Information (Mon-Fri: 10am-1pm & 2-5pm) Try the BFI website for film and television information 24 hours a day, 52 weeks a year… Film & TV Info – www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo - contains a range of information to help find answers to your queries. -
The Oxford Companion to English Literature, 6Th
R RABAN, Jonathan (1942- ), travel writer, sailor, and academics, is without rival. His command of the novelist, born in Norfolk, the son of an Anglican vernacular, sustained by an encyclopaedic vocabulary clergyman, and educated at the University of Hull; he and a virtuoso's rhetorical repertoire, and extending subsequently lectured at the universities of Aberyst beyond French and its dialects to a dozen contem wyth and East Anglia. His works include Soft City porary languages, remains unique in French literature. (1974), a study of London life; Arabia through the His realism recognizes the physical functions of Looking Glass (1979); and Old Glory (1982), an account mankind, affirms its uncorrupted origins, trusts in of a voyage down the Mississippi. Coasting (1986) is an the effectiveness of virtuous action, and urges gaiety of account of a 1982 journey by ketch round the British mind as a supreme good. Although he was known to G. Isles, which combines autobiography, marine schol *Harvey and F. *Bacon, he was not translated into arship, and sharp political commentary. Foreign Land English until *Urquhart's magisterial version of 1653 (1985) is a novel which also returns to England, seen (Books I and II) and 1693-4 (Book III together with through the eyes of a returning exile. For Love and *Motteux's translation of Books IV and V). Thereafter Money (1987) combines essays and autobiography. his influence on English literature was widespread, Hunting Mister Heartbreak (1990) is a journey explor though particularly marked on S. *Butler, * Swift, ing American emigration and identity, and Bad Land: *Sterne, *Peacock, and *Joyce.