
Creating Australian Television Drama
A Screenwriting History
Susan Lever(Author)
Australian Scholarly Publishing
Published on 14. May 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
292 pages
978-1-925984-88-0 (ISBN)
Description
Television drama has been the dominant form of popular storytelling for more than sixty years, shaping the imaginations of millions of people. This book surveys the careers of the central creators of those stories for Australian television-the writers who learnt how to work in a new medium, adapting to its constraints and exploring its creative possibilities. Informed by interviews with many writers, it describes the establishment of Australian television drama production, observing the way writers grasped the creative and business opportunities that television presented. It examines the development of Australian versions of the major television genres-the sitcom, the police drama, the historical series, docudrama, and social drama- presenting a 'canon' of significant Australian television drama productions that deserve to be remembered. It offers an account of the emergence of work by Indigenous writers for television and it argues for the consideration of television drama alongside histories of Australian film and stage drama.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Kew, VIC
Australia
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
431 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-925984-88-0 (9781925984880)
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