Definitely not Byronic (although David Cassidy had his own share of angst), but no one's mentioned THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY! Don Larsson ----------------------------------------------- "Only connect!" --E.M. Forster Donald F. Larsson Department of English Minnesota State University Mankato, MN 56001 [log in to unmask] ________________________________ From: Film and TV Studies Discussion List on behalf of Jesse Kalin Sent: Mon 11/29/2004 5:00 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [SCREEN-L] Authors and Artists on Television Shows Jeremy--There is, perhaps foremost, Dennis Potter's "The Singing Detective", about a writer (perhaps it doesn't count for your purposes) since it is a mini-series rather than a season-series. (If it does count, there was the 6 part adaptation of Sartre's "Roads to Freedom", though its hero--Matthieu--is more suspended in mid-course or distanced than tormented.) Jesse On Nov 29, 2004, at 3:29 PM, Jeremy Butler wrote: > I'm currently working on a revision of the textbook, Television: > Critical > Methods and Applications. Specifically, I'm revising/enlarging the > chapter > on critical methods. Although I think the auteur theory has very > limited > application to television, I have a small section discussing it. > > This has led me to thinking about the Romantic, Byronic conception of > the > artist--meaning both painters and poets, novelists, musicians, et > al.--as a > tormented and usually demented individual. While it's easy to come up > with > dozens of examples of FILMS about such poor souls (e.g., POLLACK, > BASQUIAT, > etc. etc. etc.), I'm struggling to think of a single television series. > > I suppose there's THE MONKEES and FAME. And LOVE, SIDNEY did cast Tony > Randall as an artist. But surely there are better examples than that. > > Or does episodic television not favor the Romantic artist as a > stereotype > the way that the cinema does? > > I have been thinking mostly of U.S. television since that is where the > textbook is principally distributed, but I'd be curious to hear about > any > instances of television series (and not just one-time documentary-style > biographies) centered on an artist, author, or musician. > > Thanks. > > > Jeremy Butler > [log in to unmask] > ======================================================== > Resources for film/TV educators and students: > www.ScreenSite.org > Television: Critical Methods and Applications: > www.TVCrit.com > > ---- > Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the > University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu > ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org