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Jim Allen : radical drama beyond 'days of hope'

Willis, A

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Due to a desire to establish television as a serious medium, television drama has often been seen as a forum for writers, with names such as David Mercer, Dennis Potter and Trevor Griffiths identified by critics as the driving force, or auteur, behind the works that bear their names rather than, as in much writing about film, the director. However, while this has been so, there are also many examples of writers whose contribution to television writing has been much less celebrated, often due to their close collaboration with a high-profile director who in many critics’ view remains the most influential contributor to the final piece of work. One practitioner who arguably has failed to get the critical credit he is due is Jim Allen, a writer still perhaps best known for his work with one such high-profile director, Ken Loach.

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Willis, A. (2008). Jim Allen : radical drama beyond 'days of hope'. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 5(2), 300-317. https://doi.org/10.3366/E1743452108000381

Journal Article Type Article
Online Publication Date May 1, 2009
Publication Date Nov 1, 2008
Deposit Date Jan 5, 2011
Publicly Available Date Apr 5, 2016
Journal Journal of British Cinema and Television
Print ISSN 1743-4521
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 5
Issue 2
Pages 300-317
DOI https://doi.org/10.3366/E1743452108000381
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/E1743452108000381
Related Public URLs http://www.euppublishing.com/loi/jbctv

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