Granada Television

Granada TelevisionUnique, readable first hand accounts of one of the most significant periods in British television history. Introductory essay from leading academic Julia Hallam (University of Liverpool), sets the creation of Granada in the context of British broadcasting history and of television as it is today. Provides an insight into the culture of Granada TV during its pioneering early years, from the perspectives of writers, producers, directors, technicians and

their staff and legal advisers but also to officials in Foreign and Defence Ministries and non governmental agencies working in conflict situations

It also highlights important areas of innovation where governments

and social standing

Hermínio Martins was a distinguished Portuguese sociologist

These varied contributions illuminate performances that range from theatre in Thai refugee camps to site-specific works staged in a run-down immigrant community in the United Kingdom

and the family by grounding them in the struggles of disabled people for self-determination

popular female dramatists

Across more than 500 pages

A comparative study of the colleges established by Irish

Charles Edelman presents a play that will delight today's readers and audiences as much as it did those of 1597

Moves beyond a focus on gothic machinery and adaptations of literary gothic to consider television gothic in light of recent scholarship on the mode itself

The principal purpose of this collection of essays is to subject texts