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Author : Rodney Marshall
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326461799
Author : Rodney Marshall,Sam Denham,Piers Johnson,James Speirs,Darren Burch,Margaret J Gordon,JZ Ferguson,Lauren Humphries-Brooks,Matthew Lee,Dan O'Shea,Cindy Dye
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326308131
The Avengers was a unique, genre-defying television series which blurred the traditional boundaries between 'light entertainment' and disturbing drama. It was a product of the constantly-evolving 1960s yet retains a timeless charm. The creation of The New Avengers, in 1976, saw John Steed re-emerge, alongside two younger co-leads: sophisticated action girl Purdey and Gambit, a 'hard man' with a soft centre. The cultural context had changed - including the technology, music, fashions, cars, fighting styles and television drama itself - but Avengerland was able to re-establish itself. Nazi invaders, a third wave of cybernauts, Hitchcockian killer birds, a sleeping city, giant rat, a deadly health spa, a skyscraper with a destructive mind...The 1970s series is, paradoxically, both new yet also part of the rich, innovative Avengers history. Avengerland Regained draws on the knowledge of a broad range of experts and fans as it explores the final vintage of The Avengers.
Author : Rodney Marshall,Matthew Lee
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781326325176
Lew Grade's pioneering ITC company created a production line of quirky new drama series for British Independent Television in the 1960s, fulfilling a vision of providing entertaining, colour film series for a global market. In the first of a proposed series of critical guides, Avengers expert Rodney Marshall and television historian Matthew Lee explore ITC's Man in a Suitcase. Their book offers new, inventive readings of all thirty episodes. Man in a Suitcase is a product of its mid-1960s context, exploring themes such as Cold War espionage and Swinging Sixties playgirls, yet most of the stories also have a timeless feel to them: political corruption, blackmail, murder, missing persons or money, art theft. Despite the private detective/bounty hunter formula, there are welcome elements of playfulness, quirkiness, surrealism and a healthy abundance of social and political critique. Man in a Suitcase cannot be simplistically labelled as 'light entertainment' given the dark subject matter and its treatment.
Author : Rodney Marshall
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781326141714
Subversive Champagne re-examines the 1960s cult television series, The Avengers, through a close analysis of 25 filmed episodes. The book examines how The Avengers - during the classic Emma Peel era (1964-1967) - was continually shifting the boundaries of audience expectation, defying both genre classification and viewers' traditional desire for kitchen sink drama. Subversive Champagne centres on eighteen episodes from the monochrome Peel Season 4 - widely acknowledged as the artistic pinnacle of the series. It is in this era - caught between video-tape and colour film - that The Avengers was undergoing arguably its most profound stylistic and thematic transitions, from mild eccentricity to something genuinely experimental. The author extends his journey into the exhilarating but 'uneven' colour Season 5, adding chapters on seven more episodes, thus allowing us to explore the entire Emma Peel era. Entertaining froth or groundbreaking art? Rediscover the most iconic show in television history.
Author : Rodney Marshall
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1522842861
Avengerland Revisited offers the definitive guide to this iconic series, with the filmed era of the show reviewed from every possible angle. Both editions contain the same content.It places the original series within its 1960s context and explores the ingredients which combine to make both The Avengers and The New Avengers unique: iconic characters; innovative script writers and direction; fashions; music; cars; sets and locations; the display of martial arts. Writers examine the structural elements of the show's winning formula: the main titles; teasers; tags. Essays tackle key themes: the country house trap; graveyards; the art of murder; in addition to looking at why this quintessentially British show is such an international success. Avengers veterans Roger Marshall and Raymond Austin offer insiders' views and Alan Hayes pays homage to the late, great Patrick Macnee.The Avengers is a unique, genre-defying television series which blurs the traditional boundaries between 'light entertainment' and subversive drama. It was a product of the constantly-evolving 1960s and the eclectic 1970s, yet retains a timeless charm.Avengerland Revisited is the definitive guide to that surreal never-never land.
Author : Rodney Marshall,Sam Denham,Matthew Lee,JZ Ferguson,Geoff Dodd
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780244715052
Television drama is frequently marginalised as a piece of fleeting popular culture rather than 'a more lasting art form'. The emergence of television studies has helped to question this mind-set. Innovative television drama can rival any field of the arts in terms of material worthy of critical exploration. This series of books focuses on 'outstanding' examples of British television dramas, centring on a single episode in an attempt to explain what makes both the episode in particular, and the series in general, remarkable. The social context, script, characters sets/locations, music, and direction are all focal points. This Classic British Television Drama (CBTD) series of books continues with an exploration of Man in a Suitcase's episode Day of Execution. Elements of Cold War espionage, American gumshoe, British thriller and 'Swinging' London combine in a series which is hard to define and was, arguably, ahead of its time.
Author : Rodney Marshall
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781326277369
Drawing inspiration from the private detective and Western genres, as well as the cult 1960s series The Fugitive, Roger Marshall's mid-1980s drama Travelling Man was both critically acclaimed and commercially popular, drawing audiences of up to 13.2 million viewers. Ex-Drugs Squad detective and jailbird Alan Lomax is a fascinatingly flawed protagonist, but it is the setting of the canals and inland waterways of Britain which provide the unique charm of Travelling Man, offering the perfect backdrop for Lomax's nomadic quests. The canals also dictate the show's leisured pace. Avengers expert Rodney Marshall offers a critical guide to all thirteen episodes, exploring the scripts, direction, characterisation, acting and music. ""One thing about quiet waterways, you can hear footsteps.""
Author : Rodney Marshall,Sam Denham,Bernard Ginez,Richard Cogzell,Frank Shailes,Piers Johnson,Frank Hui,Darren Burch,Margaret J Gordon,JZ Ferguson,Sunday Swift,Lauren Humphries-Brooks,Matthew Lee,Mark Saunders,Dan O'Shea
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326118204
Author : Rodney Marshall,Sam Denham,Bernard Ginez,Richard Cogzell,Piers Johnson,James Speirs,Frank Hui,Margaret J Gordon,JZ Ferguson,Sunday Swift,Lauren Humphries-Brooks,Dan O'Shea
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326120092
Author : Rodney Marshall
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326251505
Author : Rodney Marshall
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1522846255
Avengerland Revisited offers the definitive guide to this iconic series, with the filmed era of the show reviewed from every possible angle. Both editions contain the same content. It places the original series within its 1960s context and explores the ingredients which combine to make both The Avengers and The New Avengers unique: iconic characters; innovative script writers and direction; fashions; music; cars; sets and locations; the display of martial arts. Writers examine the structural elements of the show's winning formula: the main titles; teasers; tags. Essays tackle key themes: the country house trap; graveyards; the art of murder; in addition to looking at why this quintessentially British show is such an international success. Avengers veterans Roger Marshall and Raymond Austin offer insiders' views and Alan Hayes pays homage to the late, great Patrick Macnee. The Avengers is a unique, genre-defying television series which blurs the traditional boundaries between 'light entertainment' and subversive drama. It was a product of the constantly-evolving 1960s and the eclectic 1970s, yet retains a timeless charm. Avengerland Revisited is the definitive guide to that surreal never-never land.
Author : Rodney Marshall
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326862121
In the mid-1980s, in Edinburgh, Ian Rankin was hatching a plot for a 'crime thriller' from his student digs. Knots & Crosses - like its frayed protagonist John Rebus - was rough around the edges but marked a promising debut. More than a quarter of a century later, Rankin and Rebus have a global following. The series has been both critically acclaimed and commercially popular. Detective John Rebus is anything but conventional. The same can be said of Ian Rankin's innovative texts which take crime fiction far beyond formulaic genre, producing radical, disruptive, borderline texts. In the first ever full-length study of all twenty-one Rebus novels, Rodney Marshall argues that Rankin's fiction continues to break new ground, blurring the boundaries between traditional detective novel and modern literature. November 2016 fifth edition: now includes an exclusive eighteen page interview with Ian Rankin and a chapter on Rather Be The Devil, Rankin's new Rebus novel.
Author : Rodney Marshall
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-04
Category : Fathers and daughters
ISBN : 9781326879594
Father of two, David Jennings is divorced and working as a professor of literature in Singapore. Out of the blue he receives a phone call from his ex-wife, Anne. Their daughter, Kate, a promising university student, has been found dead on a bleak hillside outside Brighton. The police are convinced that she has taken her own life. The coronerÕs Open Verdict encourages him to start his own, guilt-ridden investigations into her death. As Jennings journeys into his daughterÕs past, the harrowing mission takes us to London, Bogot+ and the English coastline, in a search to understand ÔWhy?Õ But what if the truth is worse than not knowing?
Author : Laurel Forster,Sue Harper
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443818384
This collection of essays highlights the variety of 1970s culture, and shows how it responded to the transformations that were taking place in that most elusive of decades. The 1970s was a period of extraordinary change on the social, sexual and political fronts. Moreover, the culture of the period was revolutionary in a number of ways; it was sometimes florid, innovatory, risk-taking and occasionally awkward and inconsistent. The essays collected here reflect this diversity and analyse many cultural forms of the 1970s. The book includes articles on literature, politics, drama, architecture, film, television, youth cultures, interior design, journalism, and contercultural “happenings”. Its coverage ranges across phenomena as diverse as the Wombles and Woman’s Own. The volume offers an interdisciplinary account of a fascinating period in British cultural history. This book makes an important intervention in the field of 1970s history. It is edited and introduced by Laurel Forster and Sue Harper, both experienced writers, and the book comprises work by both established and emerging scholars. Overall it makes an exciting interpretation of a momentous and colourful period in recent culture.
Author : Toby Miller
Publisher : British Film Institute
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997-09-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UCSC:32106018786076
Author focuses in detail on the texts of the series, their broadcast contexts and their subsequent reception and interpretation. He probes the key themes - pop, fashion, sex and the postmodern - and, drawing on the opinions of numerous fans, establishes what made the series such a success.