Authorship, form and narrative in the television plays of Alan Clarke, 1967-89

This thesis represents the first full-length critical study of the career of a director working in television drama. It combines a broadly chronological study of the dominant themes and approaches of the British director Alan Clarke with an awareness of various contexts: the institutional contexts in which he worked, critical debates on television form, and the methodological problems which confront critics when they attempt to attribute authorship to a television director. The central and interlinked issues which recur throughout this thesis are the politics of form, realism, narrative and authorship.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceCarl Baron Memorial FundGBUnited Kingdo