A deep dive into Docudrama ft. Cathy Come Home
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written by Saurabh Nachinolkar
edited by / parthhesh
narrated by: Alex Plet
chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:53 Precursors
02:40 Docudrama as a Television Form
04:56 Docudrama in times of crisis
06:05 Cathy Come Home
08:15 Conclusion
Films Cited:
Battleship Potemkin. 1925. [Film]. Sergei Eisenstein. dir. Russia: Goskino.
Cathy Come Home. 1966. [TV Film]. Ken Loach (dir). Screenplay by Jeremy Sandford. UK: BBC.
Culloden. 1964. [TV Film]. Peter Watkins. dir. UK: BBC.
The Debussy Film: Impressions of the French Composer. 1965. [TV Film]. Ken Russell. dir. UK: BBC.
The Dreyfus Affair. 1899. [Film]. Georges Melies. dir. France: Star Film Company.
Inside the Twin Towers. 2006. [TV Documentary]. Richard Dale. dir. USA: Discovery Channel.
Missiles of October. 1974. [Film]. Anthony Page. dir. USA: NBC.
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Braun, Edward. (2014) “‘What Truth is There in this Story?’: The Dramatisation of Northern Ireland” in Jonathan Bignell and Stephen Lacey (eds.) British Television Drama: Past, Present and Future. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Breton, Hugh Ortega. (2015) “The Paranoid Style’s Traumatic Speculations of Suffering” in Stephen Lacey and Derek Paget (eds.) The ‘War on Terror’: Post-9/11 Television Drama, Docudrama and Documentary. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
Butler, Judith. (2009) Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? London and New York: Verso.
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Debord, Guy. (1967) Society of the Spectacle. Translated by Ken Knabb. London: Rebel Press.
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Loach, Ken, Tony Garnett and Leonard Quart. (1980) “A Fidelity to the Real: An Interview with Ken Loach and Tony Garnett”, Cinéaste, vol.10/4.
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