David Forrest, Sue Vice

Barry Hines (eBook, ePUB)

Kes, Threads and beyond

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Barry Hines's novel A Kestrel for a Knave, adapted for the screen as Kes, is one of the best-known and well-loved novels of the post-war period, while his screenplay for the television drama Threads is central to a Cold War-era vision of nuclear attack. But Hines published a further eight novels and nine screenplays between the 1960s and 1990s, as well as writing eleven other works which remain unpublished and unperformed. This study examines the entirety of Hines's work. It argues that he used a great variety of aesthetic forms to represent the lives of working-class people in Britain during the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and into the post-industrial conclusion of the twentieth century. It also makes the case that, as well as his literary flair for poetic realism, Hines's authorial contributions to the films of his novels show the profoundly collaborative nature of these works.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526123756
• Artikelnr.: 57472018

Autorenporträt

David Forrest and Sue Vice

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Tony Garnett Introduction: Kes
Threads and beyond 1 Poetry with purpose and the journey to Kes: Billy's Last Stand
The Blinder
A Kestrel for a Knave and Kes 2 The politics of hope in 1970s Britain: First Signs
Speech Day
The Gamekeeper
Tom Kite
The Price of Coal 3 Thatcherism and South Yorkshire: Looks and Smiles
Unfinished Business
Fun City
Threads 4 Imagining post-industrial Britain: The Heart of It
the miners' strike plays
Looking at the Sun
Shooting Stars
Born Kicking
Elvis Over England Conclusion Index