Barry Hines : Kes, Threads and beyond / David Forrest, Sue Vice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Forrest, David, author.

Vice, Sue, 1961- author.

Series:

Manchester Film Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hines, Barry 1939-2016.

Hines, Barry, 1939-.

Hines, Barry, 1939---Criticism and interpretation.

English fiction--20th century--Criticism and interpretation.

English fiction.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 230 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

Hardback

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

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eight novels and nine screenplays between the 1960s and 1990s, as well as writing eleven other works which remain unpublished and unperformed.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. It also makes the case that, as well as his literary flair for poetic realism, Hines’s authorial contributions to the films of his novels show the profoundly collaborative nature of these works.

Contents:

Foreword / Tony Garnett

Introduction : Kes, Threads and beyond

Poetry with purpose and the journey to Kes : Billy's last stand, The blinder, A kestrel for a knave and Kes

The politics of hope in 1970s Britain : First signs, Speech day, The gamekeeper, Tom Kite, The price of coal

Thatcherism and south Yorkshire : Looks and smiles, Unfinished business, Fun city, Threads

Imagining post-industrial Britain : The heart of it, the miners' strike plays, Looking at the sun, Shooting stars, Born kicking, Elvis over England

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781526132208

1526132206

9781526123749

1526123746

OCLC:

1273307483