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Creating Australian television drama : a screenwriting history / Susan Lever.

Creating Australian television drama : a screenwriting history / Susan Lever.
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ISBN 9781925984880 (paperback)
1925984885 (paperback)
Author Lever, Susan (author)
Title Creating Australian television drama : a screenwriting history / Susan Lever.
Publisher and/or associated date/s North Melbourne, Vic : Australian Scholarly, 2020.
©2020.
Description viii, 282 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Television drama has been the dominant form of popular storytelling for more than sixty years, shaping the imaginations of millions of people. This book surveys the careers of the central creators of those stories for Australian television--the writers who learnt how to work in a new medium, adapting to its constraints and exploring its creative possibilities. Informed by interviews with many writers, it describes the establishment of Australian television drama production, observing the way writers grasped the creative and business opportunities that television presented. It examines the development of Australian versions of the major television genres--the sitcom, the police drama, the historical series, docudrama, and social drama-- presenting a 'canon' of significant Australian television drama productions that deserve to be remembered. It offers an account of the emergence of work by Indigenous writers for television and it argues for the consideration of television drama alongside histories of Australian film and stage drama.
Subjects Television programs -- Australia -- History
Australian drama -- History and criticism
Television plays, Australian
Australian drama -- Aboriginal Australian authors
Call number 2020.201
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