Soft Cover. Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Dennis Potter redefined the standards for television playwriting. The author analyzes Potter's work, emphasizing the dramatic interplay between this intensely brilliant, yet difficult man's life and the medium to which he was devoted. 382 pages including index. B&W Photos. Really nice copy.

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Titre

The Life and Work of Dennis Potter

�diteur

Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1995, Woodstock, NY

Date de parution

1995

Langue

anglais

ISBN � 10 chiffres

1585672513

ISBN � 13 chiffres

9781585672516

Reliure

Soft Cover

�dition

First Edition

Impression

1er tirage

�tat de l'article

Near Fine

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Dennis Potter redefined the standards for television playwriting. His remarkable career included "Pennies from Heaven," the inspiration for the movie starring Steve Martin-for which Potter wrote the screenplay-and the brilliantly complex "The Singing Detective," one of the finest artistic achievements ever created for television.

W. Stephen Gilbert brilliantly analyzes Potter's work, emphasizing the dramatic interplay between this brilliant, difficult man's life and the medium to which he was devoted. At the age of twenty-four, for instance, Potter was diagnosed with psoriatic arthopathy, a rare debilitating skin disease whose horrors he portrayed with biting black humor through his alter ego, the Michael Gambon character in "The Singing Detective." Weeks before his foretold death, he gave an astonishing television interview to Melvyn Bragg. Unforgettable for its honesty about life and work and death, the result was a gripping piece of television-quintessential Dennis Potter. This is an essential book for anyone interested in television, film, or this courageous and fascinating man.

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