Days of Vision by Don W Taylor

Days of Vision by Don W Taylor

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Don Taylor, whose plays include "Roses of Eyam" and the 13-part series "God's Revolution", recounts his experiences of BBC drama when he worked with a number of radical directors including David Mercer and attacks recent trends in the department.

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Days of Vision by Don W Taylor

In 1960 Don Taylor joined the BBC as one of its least experienced and most ambitious directors of television drama. With working-class roots, and Oxford education and a passion for poetry, he found himself an initiate of an institution offering almost complete freedom under the sophisticated and kindly eye of Michael Barry. He seized the chance to work with a number of radical working-class writers, significant among them the socialist David Mercer, for whom he directed the trilogy "The Generations". Mercer was one of the first writers to realize the difference between plays for the stage and for television and together they created some of the most vital television drama of the period. In the final section, Taylor outlines his aesthetics, arguing against recent developments in television drama in favour of the use of film.
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ISBN 13 9780413615107
ISBN 10 0413615103
Title Days of Vision
Author Don W Taylor
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Methuen Publishing Ltd
Year published 1990-06-14
Number of pages 244
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