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Cracker
Mark Duguid
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Description for Cracker
Paperback. Mark Duguid's study of Cracker places the series in the context of TV crime drama, explores key themes such as morality and guilt; bereavement and grief, and the Hillsborough disaster and its aftermath, as well as focusing on the character of Fitz, and drawing on interviews with series creator Jimmy McGovern and producer Gub Neal. Series: BFI TV Classics. Num Pages: 144 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APT. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 190 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 294.
Cracker (1993-6; 2007) was one of the standout television series of the 1990s, reinvigorating the television crime drama and winning both critical plaudits and ratings success. In Fitz, its flawed, self-destructive, arrogant but brilliant criminal psychologist hero, the series created one of the decade's most iconic characters, in the process turning Robbie Coltrane from a respected comic performer into an award-winning actor and a genuine star.
Cracker played freely with the conventions of the detective thriller, focusing less on the 'who' of crime than the 'why'. As such it followed a Catholic preoccupation with deep motive and moral responsibility ... Read more
Cracker (1993-6; 2007) was one of the standout television series of the 1990s, reinvigorating the television crime drama and winning both critical plaudits and ratings success. In Fitz, its flawed, self-destructive, arrogant but brilliant criminal psychologist hero, the series created one of the decade's most iconic characters, in the process turning Robbie Coltrane from a respected comic performer into an award-winning actor and a genuine star.
Cracker played freely with the conventions of the detective thriller, focusing less on the 'who' of crime than the 'why'. As such it followed a Catholic preoccupation with deep motive and moral responsibility ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
168
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
BFI TV Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844572632
SKU
V9781844572632
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About Mark Duguid
MARK DUGUID is a Senior Curator of the BFI National Archive, and is the editor of, and a major contributor to BFI Screenonline, an online research and educational resource devoted to the history of film and television in Britain. He has contributed to Sight& Sound magazine and to the Encyclopedia of Television (2004).
Reviews for Cracker
'Duguid's illuminating analysis of the programme also contains insights provided by interviews carried out with McGovern and fans of the show will find a great deal to enjoy here.' - The Crack Magazine 'Diguid does a splendid job of helping to re-establish Cracker at the centre of the television cannon...Such astute analysis is a welcome contribution to the BFI's TV ... Read more