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Interview: Allan Cubitt

Spicer, Andrew

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Abstract

Allan Cubitt is an important contemporary writer who has worked in fringe theatre, television and film. The interview was the first critical profile he has received and thus an original contribution to the history of screenwriting and British cinema. It included a lengthy and illuminating discussion of the craft of screenwriting and also the various constraints (financial, institutional, modal) in which the screenwriter has to work. It was an important historical document in that Cubitt contrasted the relatively generous opportunities afforded to a writer in the 1980s when he first began with the genre and ratings-driven climate of today.

Citation

Spicer, A. (2009). Interview: Allan Cubitt. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 5(2), 362-375. https://doi.org/10.3366/E1743452108000423

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date 2009-05
Journal Journal of British Cinema and Television
Print ISSN 1743-4521
Electronic ISSN 1755-1714
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 5
Issue 2
Pages 362-375
DOI https://doi.org/10.3366/E1743452108000423
Keywords screenwriter, theatre, film, television
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/998458
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/E1743452108000423