Troy Kennedy Martin

<p>This is the first full-length study of the screenwriter Troy Kennedy Martin whose work for film and television includes Z Cars The Italian Job Kelly's Heroes The Sweeney Reilly - Ace of Spies and Edge of Darkness. With a career spanning six decades Troy Kennedy Martin has seen the rise and fall of the television dramatist making his debut in the era of studio-based television drama in the late 1950s prior to the transition to filmed drama (for which he argued in a famous manifesto) as the television play was gradually replaced by popular series and serials for which Kennedy Martin did some of his best work.<br><br>Drawing on original interviews with Kennedy Martin and his collaborators the book provides a comprehensive analysis of the film and television career of one of Britain's leading screenwriters. Also included is a chapter examining Kennedy Martin's significant contribution to innovative and experimental television drama - his 1964 'Nats Go Home' polemic and the six-part serial Diary of a Young Man plus his 1986 MacTaggart Lecture which anticipated recent developments in television style and technology.<br><br>Written in an easily accessible style this book will appeal to anyone with an interest in television drama screenwriting and the history of British television over the last fifty years.</p>