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Beckett on screen: The television Plays
ISBN: 9781847794338
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Manchester University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Language & Literature;

This ground-breaking study analyses Beckett's television plays in relation to the history and theory of television. It argues that they are in dialogue with innovative television traditions connected to Modernism in television, film, radio, theatre, literature and the visual arts.

Jonathan Bignell is Reader in Television and Film at the University of Reading, and Director of the Centre for Television Drama StudiesJonathan Bignell is Professor of Television and Film at the University of Reading