Dennis Potter (1935–1994)
Forfatter af The Singing Detective
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ducated at Oxford, Dennis Potter's aesthetic resonates with the strains of postmodernism proliferated by Tom Stoppard and Thomas Pynchon: a combination of the bizarre and a compelling and somehow old-fashioned narrative. Operating simultaneously with this is a wryly cynical undertone that vis mere challenges the smug conventionality of the narrative. His novels, Ticket to Ride and Blackeyes, are vintage slick postmodern texts, evocative of Robert Coover's or Don DeLillo's with their tricks, twists, dazzling opacity, and masterful stylized tone. Potter's most notable distinction, though, is in bringing his work to the television screen---adapting his work to an industry that was (especially in the 1960s and 1970s, when he began writing) a highly unlikely forum for his avant-garde offerings. Yet Potter can be credited with creating a stunning canon of television plays that won acclaim despite the seemingly inauspicious mix of the medium and the drama; beyond this, he has energetically expanded the reach of popular culture (from within that culture), garnering admiration for the seriousness and incisiveness of such television plays as Pennies from Heaven (1978) and The Singing Detective (1986). The latter is an autobiographically based story about a hack writer's anxieties and the relationship between text and reality. Typical of Potter's rich filmic technique, it features a visual and musical panorama brimming with seamlessly intermixed stimuli ranging from 1930s song and dance numbers to psychoanalytic probing of childhood and sexuality. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Værker af Dennis Potter
Secret Friends [Blu-ray] 2 eksemplarer
The singing detective 2 eksemplarer
Dennis Potter at London Weekend Television [DVD] 2 eksemplarer
Magnetismo Selvagem / Dr. Mesmer - O Feiticeiro 1 eksemplar
Practical Concepts and Training Exercises for Crisis Intervention Teams: Including Role Plays and Interactive Games (2003) 1 eksemplar
Blackeyes 1 eksemplar
The glittering coffin 1 eksemplar
Karaoke & Cold Lazarus Boxed Set 1 eksemplar
Cold Lazarus 1 eksemplar
Joe's Ark 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss (2000) — Bidragyder — 216 eksemplarer
Dennis Potter: 3 to Remember (Triple Feature Video) — Screenwriter — 1 eksemplar
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- Fødselsdato
- 1935-05-17
- Dødsdag
- 1994-06-07
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Fødested
- Berry Hill, Gloucestershire, England, UK
- Dødssted
- Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England, UK
- Bopæl
- Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England, UK
- Uddannelse
- Bell's Grammar School, Coleford, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Joint Services School for Linguists - Erhverv
- playwright
screenwriter
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Dennis Potter i The Chapel of the Abyss (oktober 2023)
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The singing detective af Keith Gordon
Bafflingly inferior to the TV series, to the point where it feels like the filmmakers didn't grasp why the original was so brilliant. Baffling because Dennis Potter wrote the screenplay -- though it's likely there were significant changes in the decade between when he wrote it and when it was made. It feels more like karaoke or a jukebox musical, where the songs are randomly shoehorned in without any particular purpose.
In Chicago during the 1930s Depression, sheet-music salesman Arthur Parker is trying to sell his products, but it’s not easy to convince unwilling music-store owners to buy them. Although he’s already married to the somewhat drab Joan, when he meets schoolteacher Eileen in a music store, he falls in love with her. (fonte: Imdb)
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