Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.- Introduction.- 1. The Early Development of British Television Drama, 1930-54.- 2. Popular Drama and Social Realism, 1955-61.- 3. British Television Drama Comes of Age, 1962-9.-  4. History, Realism and Ideology, 1970-9.- 5. Television Drama and Thatcherism, 1979-90.- 6. Reinventing Television Drama, 1990-2002.- 7. British Television Drama in the Digital Age, 2002-14.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.

About the Author

Lez Cooke is Senior Research Officer in the Department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is the author of Troy Kennedy Martin (2007), A Sense of Place: Regional British Television Drama, 1956–82 (2012) and Style in British Television Drama (2013). He is on the editorial board of the Journal of British Cinema and Television.

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