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Author Forrest, David, author

Title Barry Hines : Kes, Threads and beyond / David Forrest, Sue Vice
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white)
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Poetry with purpose and the journey to Kes: Billy's Last Stand, The Blinder, A Kestrel for a Knave and Kes -- 2. politics of hope in 1970s Britain: First Signs, Speech Day, The Gamekeeper, Tom Kite, The Price of Coal -- 3. Thatcherism and South Yorkshire: Looks and Smiles, Unfinished Business, Fun City, Threads -- 4. Imagining post-industrial Britain: The Heart of It, the miners' strike plays, Looking at the Sun, Shooting Stars, Born Kicking, Elvis Over England
Summary Barry Hines's novel 'A Kestrel for a Knave', adapted for the screen as 'Kes', is one of the best-known and well-loved novels of the post-war period, while his screenplay for the television drama 'Threads' is central to a Cold War-era vision of nuclear attack. But Hines published a further eight novels and nine screenplays between the 1960s and 1990s, as well as writing eleven other works which remain unpublished and unperformed. This study examines the entirety of Hines's work. It argues that he used a great variety of aesthetic forms to represent the lives of working-class people in Britain during the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and into the post-industrial conclusion of the twentieth century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Hines, Barry, 1939- -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Hines, Barry, 1939- fast
Subject English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
English drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
English drama
English fiction
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Vice, Sue, 1961- author.
ISBN 9781526123749
1526123746