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So far there has been no full scale criticism of television programmes: lots of able, witty and informed comment, but no full-scale criticism of the plays and fiims such as they would receive if they were performed in a theatre or a cinema. In this collection of articles, T. C. Worsley, the television critic of the Financial Times, makes a first attempt to fi11 the gap. The plays of Harold Pintér, Dávid Mercer and John Hopkins, the inventive biographies of Ken Russell, the adaptations of Jonathan Miller, Johnny Speight's Alf Garnett, Z-Cars, the innovatory direction of Tony Garnett and Ken Loach, all receive the full-length reviews they deserve. Then there are special television problems; the problem of the documentaries, for instance. How 'true' are they? How far can we really trust them ? Does télé-verité with its hand-held cameras make them any truer? And the adaptations. Can Shakespeare be successful on the box?Was The Portrait of a Lady true to... Tovább

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So far there has been no full scale criticism of television programmes: lots of able, witty and informed comment, but no full-scale criticism of the plays and fiims such as they would receive if they were performed in a theatre or a cinema. In this collection of articles, T. C. Worsley, the television critic of the Financial Times, makes a first attempt to fi11 the gap. The plays of Harold Pintér, Dávid Mercer and John Hopkins, the inventive biographies of Ken Russell, the adaptations of Jonathan Miller, Johnny Speight's Alf Garnett, Z-Cars, the innovatory direction of Tony Garnett and Ken Loach, all receive the full-length reviews they deserve. Then there are special television problems; the problem of the documentaries, for instance. How 'true' are they? How far can we really trust them ? Does télé-verité with its hand-held cameras make them any truer? And the adaptations. Can Shakespeare be successful on the box?Was The Portrait of a Lady true to the originál ? Why was The Forsyte Saga such a success? There are policy problems, too: the relations between politicians and the médium : the relations between quality and quantity on the commercial channels: the influence of advertising. These, together with somé profiles of television personalities, Malcolm Muggeridge and Sir Hugh Carlton Greene, for instance, are somé of the subjects treated at length in Worsley's fascinating book. Vissza