Anagrams of Desire: Angela Carter's Writing for Radio, Film and Television

Charlotte Crofts

Anagrams of Desire: Angela Carter's Writing for Radio, Film and Television
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
23 January 2003
Pages
228
ISBN
9780719057243

Anagrams of Desire: Angela Carter’s Writing for Radio, Film and Television

Charlotte Crofts

Angela Carter is best known for her novels, short fiction and journalism, but she also produced a substantial body of writing for media other than the printed page, including five radio plays, two film adaptions, an original television documentary and a number of unrealised scripts for stage and screen. Despite increasing academic interest in Carter’s work, these dramatic writings have largely been ignored. In this book, Charlotte Crofts redresses this lack of critical attention by examining Carter’s dramatic writings together for the first time (including two unpublished works), giving them a more central position in the Carter canon. Divided into three sections on radio, film and television, the book’s interdisciplinary approach is underpinned by reference to exclusive interviews with the directors and producers with whom Carter collaborated, giving a unique insight into processes of adaptation and the technologies of media production. The author demonstrates how, far from being an aberration from her real vocation as a writer of fiction, Carter’s writing for radio, film and television is an extension of her self-professed demythologising practice. Essential reading for those engaged in the research and teaching of Angela Carter, this book will also appeal to a wider academic and sixth-form audience and those with a general interest in literary, cultural, and media studies.

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