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Seeing the Blossom

Seeing the Blossom( )
Author: Potter, Dennis
ISBN:978-0-571-17436-2
Publication Date:Aug 1994
Publisher:Faber & Faber, Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $11.95
Book Description:

On 5 April 1994, Dennis Potter was interviewed by Melvyn Bragg on Channel 4 Television. It was a broadcast of great poignancy and power: Dennis Potter knew he only had a few weeks to live. Their conversation records Potter's honest dissection of his life and work. Frank, amusing and moving, this inspirational and unique testament is one of the defining moments of television history.Seeing the Blossom also contains Dennis Potter's celebrated James MacTaggart...
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Book Details
Pages:100
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.512 x 8.465 x 0.276 Inches
Book Weight:0.286 Pounds
Author Biography
Potter, Dennis (Author)
ducated at Oxford, Dennis Potter's aesthetic resonates with the strains of postmodernism proliferated by Tom Stoppard and Thomas Pynchon: a combination of the bizarre and a compelling and somehow old-fashioned narrative. Operating simultaneously with this is a wryly cynical undertone that challenges the smug conventionality of the narrative. His novels, Ticket to Ride and Blackeyes, are vintage slick postmodern texts, evocative of Robert Coover's or Don DeLillo's with their tricks, twists, dazzling opacity, and masterful stylized tone. Potter's most notable distinction, though, is in bringing his work to the television screen---adapting his work to an industry that was (especially in the 1960s and 1970s, when he began writing) a highly unlikely forum for his avant-garde offerings. Yet Potter can be credited with creating a stunning canon of television plays that won acclaim despite the seemingly inauspicious mix of the medium and the drama; beyond this, he has energetically expanded the reach of popular culture (from within that culture), garnering admiration for the seriousness and incisiveness of such television plays as Pennies from Heaven (1978) and The Singing Detective (1986). The latter is an autobiographically based story about a hack writer's anxieties and the relationship between text and reality. Typical of Potter's rich filmic technique, it features a visual and musical panorama brimming with seamlessly intermixed stimuli ranging from 1930s song and dance numbers to psychoanalytic probing of childhood and sexuality. 020



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