Amanda Wrigley
Biographic Data
| ID | 3687935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Wrigley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Wrigley |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGLEY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Westminster |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3822-7633 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ancient Greece on British Television
Ancient Greece has inspired television producers and captivated viewing audiences in the United Kingdom for over half a century. By examining how and why political, social and cultural narratives of Greece have been constructed through television’s distinctive audiovisual languages, and also in relation to its influential sister-medium radio, this volume explores the nature and function of these public engagements with the written and material re…
Ancient Greece on British Television
Explores the cultural politics of televisual engagements with the history, literature and archaeology of Ancient Greece Ancient Greece has inspired television producers and captivated viewing audiences in the United Kingdom for over half a century. By examining how and why political, social and cultural narratives of Greece have been constructed through television’s distinctive audiovisual languages, and in relation also to its influential sister…
Introduction
This special issue arises from a one-day conference on the topic of ‘Radio Modernisms: Features, Cultures and the BBC’ that we held on 19 May 2016 at the British Library, with the support of the Co
Afterlives of BBC Radio Features
BBC Radio feature programmes written by established literary figures in the mid-twentieth century enjoyed richly creative afterlives across many decades and in a variety of media—for example, in print, as commercial recordings, in theatre performance and on television—as well as in a succession of new productions on radio. This activity kept works alive in the public imagination beyond the ephemeral moment of first broadcast and, it is argued, co…
Television history
This article considers possible futures for television (TV) studies, imagining how the discipline might evolve more productively over the next 10 years and what practical steps are necessary to move towards those outcomes. Conducted as a round-table discussion between leading figures in television history and archives, the debate focuses on the critical issue of archives, considering and responding to questions of access/inaccessibility, texts/co…
The Poetry and Drama of Homeric Epic, 1943–1969
Greece on Air
This book discusses creative and public engagements with ancient Greek literature, history, and thought via BBC Radio from the birth of domestic broadcasting in the 1920s up to the 1960s. The astonishing range of programmes broadcast includes some of the most interesting, imaginative, and political engagements with ideas from and about ancient Greece, from creative re-imaginings of ancient historical texts written and broadcast as Second World Wa…
Space and Place in Joan Kemp-Welch’s Television Productions of Theatre Plays
Joan Kemp-Welch (1906–1999), one of the first female television directors, started out as an actor on both the stage and film before becoming a theatre director and finally moving to television in 1955. She directed a variety of entertainment programmes for Associated-Rediffusion before marrying her evident skills as a television director with her rich experience of theatre work, in a number of important television plays, some from the stage and …
Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood, 'a Play for Voices' on Radio, Stage and Television
Dylan Thomas' radio play Under Milk Wood was performed on stage and television soon after its BBC radio premiere won the Prix Italia in 1954. Textual analysis of the 1957 BBC television production demonstrates how it contributed new resonances deriving from the medium's performative conventions and communicative strategies. The nature of the aesthetic values sought by the professional critic and the domestic viewer are evaluated: it is observed t…
A wartime radio Odyssey
The Rescue , Edward Sackville-West's 1943 radio dramatization of part of Homer's Odyssey with music by Benjamin Britten, appears to be the first substantial treatment of Homeric epic on BBC Radio, and also the most enduring (with six further productions to 1988). The Homeric epics are rich sources of material for radio dramatization: the poems offer much that is worth re-telling, with many dramatic episodes; furthermore, a great proportion of eac…
Dionysus since 69
Introduction
This special issue arises from a one-day conference on the topic of ‘Radio Modernisms: Features, Cultures and the BBC’ that we held on 19 May 2016 at the British Library, with the support of the Co
Dionysus since 69
A wartime radio Odyssey
The Rescue , Edward Sackville-West's 1943 radio dramatization of part of Homer's Odyssey with music by Benjamin Britten, appears to be the first substantial treatment of Homeric epic on BBC Radio, and also the most enduring (with six further productions to 1988). The Homeric epics are rich sources of material for radio dramatization: the poems offer much that is worth re-telling, with many dramatic episodes; furthermore, a great proportion of eac…
Space and Place in Joan Kemp-Welch’s Television Productions of Theatre Plays
Joan Kemp-Welch (1906–1999), one of the first female television directors, started out as an actor on both the stage and film before becoming a theatre director and finally moving to television in 1955. She directed a variety of entertainment programmes for Associated-Rediffusion before marrying her evident skills as a television director with her rich experience of theatre work, in a number of important television plays, some from the stage and …
Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood, 'a Play for Voices' on Radio, Stage and Television
Dylan Thomas' radio play Under Milk Wood was performed on stage and television soon after its BBC radio premiere won the Prix Italia in 1954. Textual analysis of the 1957 BBC television production demonstrates how it contributed new resonances deriving from the medium's performative conventions and communicative strategies. The nature of the aesthetic values sought by the professional critic and the domestic viewer are evaluated: it is observed t…
The Poetry and Drama of Homeric Epic, 1943–1969
Greece on Air
This book discusses creative and public engagements with ancient Greek literature, history, and thought via BBC Radio from the birth of domestic broadcasting in the 1920s up to the 1960s. The astonishing range of programmes broadcast includes some of the most interesting, imaginative, and political engagements with ideas from and about ancient Greece, from creative re-imaginings of ancient historical texts written and broadcast as Second World Wa…
Television history
This article considers possible futures for television (TV) studies, imagining how the discipline might evolve more productively over the next 10 years and what practical steps are necessary to move towards those outcomes. Conducted as a round-table discussion between leading figures in television history and archives, the debate focuses on the critical issue of archives, considering and responding to questions of access/inaccessibility, texts/co…
Ancient Greece on British Television
Ancient Greece has inspired television producers and captivated viewing audiences in the United Kingdom for over half a century. By examining how and why political, social and cultural narratives of Greece have been constructed through television’s distinctive audiovisual languages, and also in relation to its influential sister-medium radio, this volume explores the nature and function of these public engagements with the written and material re…
Ancient Greece on British Television
Explores the cultural politics of televisual engagements with the history, literature and archaeology of Ancient Greece Ancient Greece has inspired television producers and captivated viewing audiences in the United Kingdom for over half a century. By examining how and why political, social and cultural narratives of Greece have been constructed through television’s distinctive audiovisual languages, and in relation also to its influential sister…
Introduction
This special issue arises from a one-day conference on the topic of ‘Radio Modernisms: Features, Cultures and the BBC’ that we held on 19 May 2016 at the British Library, with the support of the Co
Afterlives of BBC Radio Features
BBC Radio feature programmes written by established literary figures in the mid-twentieth century enjoyed richly creative afterlives across many decades and in a variety of media—for example, in print, as commercial recordings, in theatre performance and on television—as well as in a succession of new productions on radio. This activity kept works alive in the public imagination beyond the ephemeral moment of first broadcast and, it is argued, co…
Art (10 works) · Literature (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (4 works) · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works)