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  • Day of Execution
    Matthew Lee / Rodney Marshall / Sam Denham
    Television drama is frequently marginalised as a piece of fleeting popular culture rather than ’a more lasting art form’. The emergence of television studies has helped to question this mind-set. Innovative television drama can rival any field of the arts in terms of material worthy of critical exploration. This series of books focuses on ’outstanding’ examples of British tele...
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    11,41 €

  • Why?
    Rodney Marshall
    Father of two, David Jennings is divorced and working as a professor of literature in Singapore. Out of the blue he receives a phone call from his ex-wife, Anne. Their daughter, Kate, a promising university student, has been found dead on a bleak hillside outside Brighton. The police are convinced that she has taken her own life. The coronerÕs Open Verdict encourages him to sta...
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    15,69 €

  • Subversive Champagne
    Rodney Marshall
    Subversive Champagne re-examines the 1960s cult television series, The Avengers, through a close analysis of 25 filmed episodes. The book examines how The Avengers - during the classic Emma Peel era (1964-1967) - was continually shifting the boundaries of audience expectation, defying both genre classification and viewers’ traditional desire for kitchen sink drama.Subversive Ch...
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    14,04 €

  • Avengerland Regained
    Piers Johnson / Rodney Marshall / Sam Denham
    The Avengers was a unique, genre-defying television series which blurred the traditional boundaries between ’light entertainment’ and disturbing drama. It was a product of the constantly-evolving 1960s yet retains a timeless charm.The creation of The New Avengers, in 1976, saw John Steed re-emerge, alongside two younger co-leads: sophisticated action girl Purdey and Gambit, a ’...
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    23,32 €

  • Travelling Man
    Rodney Marshall
    Drawing inspiration from the private detective and Western genres, as well as the cult 1960s series The Fugitive, Roger Marshall’s mid-1980s drama Travelling Man was both critically acclaimed and commercially popular, drawing audiences of up to 13.2 million viewers.Ex-Drugs Squad detective and jailbird Alan Lomax is a fascinatingly flawed protagonist, but it is the setting of t...
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    12,92 €

  • Blake’s 7
    Rodney Marshall
    Political satire, comic strip action adventure, science fiction, space opera, Orwellian dystopia, costume drama, Western...Drawing on a range of genres, Terry Nation’s Blake’s 7 resists categorisation or labelling; a ground-breaking piece of television drama. Presenting itself as easy-viewing, early evening entertainment for a (largely) teenage audience - which, on one level, i...
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    18,25 €

  • Wolf’s Hook
    Rodney Marshall
    It was a sunny Saturday lunchtime in June 1944. Most of the inhabitants of a sleepy village situated in the ’Free Zone’ of war-ravaged France were sitting down to a leisurely meal. Without warning, an attachment of Das Reich soldiers (the elite force of the Nazi’s Waffen-SS division) arrived. Hours later, 642 defenceless people had been massacred; their homes were smouldering r...
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    10,68 €