The Classic Serial on Television and Radio

by Robert Giddings and Keith Selby

Book Overview

The classic serial, invented by BBC Radio Drama sixty years ago, survived and adapted itself to television, the arrival of colour and the global market in what has become a flood of classics with all channels competing for ratings and overseas sales. This richly detailed book traces these developments and analyses the genre's response to social, economic, technical and cultural changes, which have re-shaped it into the form we recognise today. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312235984
• ISBN13: 9780312235987
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.8"