The Video Boys on Broadway
1962; Antioch College; Volume: 22; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/4610422
ISSN2326-9707
Autores Tópico(s)Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
ResumoU In 1954, six television playwrights-Paddy Chayefsky, Horton Foote, Tad Mosel, N. Richard Nash, Robert Alan Aurthur, and David Shaw-joined Fred Coe, then a television producer, to form an organization rather like the Playwrights' Company to produce the plays of the members. The group is much more interesting as a phenomenon of the mid-fifties than it is for its motivation (to bring the writers more money than they could get as hirelings) or its success (nothing much came of it). This gathering of forces and the publicity that grew out of it is an indication of the respect with which the television dramatist (not to be confused with the man who provided jokes for TV comics and scripts for filmed series) was treated at that time. By then, the contempt for television which had been a necessary intellectual appendage a few years earlier had collapsed under the weight of social pressure; even academic children persuaded sets into their homes and academic parents began to look over small shoulders at what was going on on the small screen. A light breeze is a blessing on a heavy hot day, so it was not surprising that the work of men like Chayefsky and Foote seemed impressive. It was a simple step to decide that their quality was an absolute, not a matter of context. For a time, there was a school of thought-
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