Barry Hines: Kes, Threads and Beyond - Couverture rigide

Forrest, David; Vice, Sue

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1784992623 ISBN 13 : 9781784992620

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2017

Synopsis

Barry Hines's novel A Kestrel for a Knave, adapted for the screen as Kes, is one of the best-known and well-loved novels of the post-war period, while his screenplay for the television drama Threads is central to a Cold War-era vision of nuclear attack. But Hines published a further eight novels and nine screenplays between the 1960s and 1990s, as well as writing eleven other works which remain unpublished and unperformed. This study examines the entirety of Hines's work. It argues that he used a great variety of aesthetic forms to represent the lives of working-class people in Britain during the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and into the post-industrial conclusion of the twentieth century. It also makes the case that, as well as his literary flair for poetic realism, Hines's authorial contributions to the films of his novels show the profoundly collaborative nature of these works.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sue Vice is Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1784992623
• ISBN 13: 9781784992620
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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