Potter on Potter
By: edited by Graham Fuller.
Contributors: Fuller, Graham, 1956-
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 1993
Place of publication: London; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
Subjects: Potter, Dennis -- Interviews; Authors, English -- 20th century -- Interviews; Television writers -- Great Britain -- Interviews; Television authorship
Description: If one writer embodies the unique character of British television drama, it is Dennis Potter. Pennies from Heaven and The Singing Detective amply demonstrate how far he has pushed the frontiers of television drama.

In the course of this book, British television's pre-eminent playwright - latterly a novelist and film-maker - talks with passionate erudition, disarming candour and acerbic wit about the early influences that shaped him and led to his pioneering use of non-naturalism to his self-reflexive subversion of film and TV cliches, his controversial approach to sex, politics, religion and the double-edged puritanism of the English condition.

The book presents a remarkable portrait of a man for whom writing is, first and foremost, a vocation.
Notes: Includes filmography (p. [143]-163), bibliographical references (p. [164]-165) and index.