Dennis Potter (1935–1994)

Autore di The Singing Detective

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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 mostra altro 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. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno

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Popolari Recenti

The Singing Detective (1986) 250 copie

Blackeyes (1987) 176 copie

Ticket to Ride (1986) 139 copie

Potter on Potter (Directors on Directors) (1993) 52 copie

Gorky Park [1983 film] (1983) — Screenwriter — 47 copie

The Singing Detective [1986 TV mini-series] (1997) — Screenwriter — 47 copie

Blue Remembered Hills (1984) 45 copie

Seeing the Blossom: Two Interviews and a Lecture (1994) 44 copie

Pennies From Heaven [novelization] (1981) 44 copie

Karaoke and Cold Lazarus (1996) 38 copie

Hide and Seek (1973) 30 copie

Lipstick on Your Collar (1993) 27 copie

Brimstone and Treacle (1978) 24 copie

The Singing Detective [2003 film] (2004) — Screenwriter — 23 copie

Pennies from Heaven [1981 film] (2004) — Screenwriter — 20 copie

Waiting for the Boat (1984) 19 copie

Son of Man (1970) 14 copie

The Nigel Barton plays: Two television plays (Penguin modern playwrights) (1967) 13 copie

The Mayor of Casterbridge [1978 TV mini series] (1978) — Screenwriter — 12 copie

The Changing Forest: Life in the Forest of Dean Today (1996) 11 copie

Dreamchild [1985 film] (2013) — Screenwriter — 8 copie

Brimstone & Treacle [1982 film] (1999) — Original play; Writer — 8 copie

Mesmer [1994 film] (2004) — Screenwriter — 8 copie

Sufficient Carbohydrate (1983) 6 copie

Christabel (1988) 5 copie

The Art of Invective: Selected Non-Fiction 1953-1994 (2015) 5 copie

Lipstick on Your Collar [1993 TV Mini-series] (1993) — Screenwriter — 4 copie

Brimstone and Treacle [1976 TV movie] (2004) — Screenplay — 4 copie

Cream in My Coffee [1980 TV Movie] (1980) — Screenwriter — 4 copie

Secret Friends [Blu-ray] 2 copie

The singing detective 2 copie

Dennis Potter at London Weekend Television [DVD] 2 copie

Rain on the Roof [1980 TV movie] (1980) — Screenwriter — 2 copie

Blade on the Feather [1980 TV movie] (1980) — Screenwriter — 2 copie

Magnetismo Selvagem / Dr. Mesmer - O Feiticeiro 1 copia

Practical Concepts and Training Exercises for Crisis Intervention Teams: Including Role Plays and Interactive Games (2003) 1 copia

Lipstick on Your Collar - Complete Series [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] by Ewan McGregor 1 copia

Blackeyes 1 copia

The glittering coffin 1 copia

Karaoke & Cold Lazarus Boxed Set 1 copia

Cold Lazarus 1 copia

Joe's Ark 1 copia

Practical Concepts and Training Exercises for Crisis Intervention Teams, Second Edition (2006) 1 copia

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Tenera è la notte (1934) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 12,978 copie

The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss (2000) — Collaboratore — 216 copie

The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Protest (1998) — Collaboratore — 31 copie

Dennis Potter: 3 to Remember (Triple Feature Video) — Screenwriter — 1 copia

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita: 1935-05-17
Data di morte: 1994-06-07
Sesso: male
Nazionalità: UK
Luogo di nascita: Berry Hill, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Luogo di morte: Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England, UK
Luogo di residenza: Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England, UK
Istruzione: Bell's Grammar School, Coleford, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Joint Services School for Linguists
Attività lavorative: playwright
screenwriter

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Dennis Potter in The Chapel of the Abyss (Ottobre 2023)

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Pennies from Heaven 🎥 di Herbert Ross

In Chicago during the 1930s Depression, sheet-music salesman Arthur Parker is trying to sell his products, but it’s not easy to convince unwilling music-store owners to buy them. Although he’s already married to the somewhat drab Joan, when he meets schoolteacher Eileen in a music store, he falls in love with her. (fonte: Imdb)

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