Lez Cooke
Biographic Data
| ID | 3687898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lez Cooke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lez |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooke |
| SIGNATURE | COOKE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mondelēz International (India) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
James Chapman, Contemporary British Television Drama
‘In these postmodern days, I suppose I'm just an old relic of the Enlightenment, so Marx and Freud are very important to me’
Ben Lamb, You’re Nicked
The police series is one of the most popular television genres, ever-present on British television screens since the 1950s, and has probably received more critical attention than any other, especially if one extends the definition to include crime/detective drama, to which it is closely related. So what does Ben Lamb’s ambitious study add to the long list of literature on the subject? Firstly, its focus is exclusively British police series, from …
The new social realism of Clocking Off
The factory-based drama series, Clocking Off, provided the BBC with an opportunity to return to its traditional strengths with a northern working-class drama intent on updating social realism for a new 'postmodern' television audience. The use of primary colours is one of the most distinctive features of Clocking Off and one of the several ways in which it 'updates' social realism for a new audience. Like the camerawork, editing and production de…
Forgotten, Neglected and Lost
The study of early British television drama has been made problematic by the fact that no programmes survive from before 1953 and only a few of the telerecordings made from 1953–54 have survived. Of those telerecordings Rudolph Cartier’s dramatisation of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954) has received considerable attention because of its innovative style and controversial subject-matter. Yet there are other telerecordings of plays made …
Television Archives
A 'New Wave' in British Television Drama
In recent years, American television drama series have been celebrated as 'quality television' at the expense of their British counterparts, yet in the 1970s and 1980s British television was frequently proclaimed to be 'the best television in the world'. This article will consider this critical turnaround and argue that, contrary to critical opinion, the last few years have seen the emergence of a 'new wave' in British television drama, comparabl…
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A 'New Wave' in British Television Drama
In recent years, American television drama series have been celebrated as 'quality television' at the expense of their British counterparts, yet in the 1970s and 1980s British television was frequently proclaimed to be 'the best television in the world'. This article will consider this critical turnaround and argue that, contrary to critical opinion, the last few years have seen the emergence of a 'new wave' in British television drama, comparabl…
Television Archives
The new social realism of Clocking Off
The factory-based drama series, Clocking Off, provided the BBC with an opportunity to return to its traditional strengths with a northern working-class drama intent on updating social realism for a new 'postmodern' television audience. The use of primary colours is one of the most distinctive features of Clocking Off and one of the several ways in which it 'updates' social realism for a new audience. Like the camerawork, editing and production de…
Forgotten, Neglected and Lost
The study of early British television drama has been made problematic by the fact that no programmes survive from before 1953 and only a few of the telerecordings made from 1953–54 have survived. Of those telerecordings Rudolph Cartier’s dramatisation of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954) has received considerable attention because of its innovative style and controversial subject-matter. Yet there are other telerecordings of plays made …
Ben Lamb, You’re Nicked
The police series is one of the most popular television genres, ever-present on British television screens since the 1950s, and has probably received more critical attention than any other, especially if one extends the definition to include crime/detective drama, to which it is closely related. So what does Ben Lamb’s ambitious study add to the long list of literature on the subject? Firstly, its focus is exclusively British police series, from …
James Chapman, Contemporary British Television Drama
‘In these postmodern days, I suppose I'm just an old relic of the Enlightenment, so Marx and Freud are very important to me’
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