Barry Hines

Zusatztext

Barry Hiness novel<i>A Kestrel for a Knave</i>, adapted for the screen as<i>Kes</i>, is one of the best-known and well-loved novels of the post-war period, while his screenplay for the television drama<i>Threads</i> is central to a Cold War-era vision of nuclear attack. But Hines published a further eight novels and nine screenplays between the 1960s and 1990s, as well as writing eleven other works which remain unpublished and unperformed. This study examines the entirety of Hiness work. It argues that he used a great variety of aesthetic forms to represent the lives of working-class people in Britain during the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and into the post-industrial conclusion of the twentieth century. It also makes the case that, as well as his literary flair for poetic realism, Hiness authorial contributions to the films of his novels show the profoundly collaborative nature of these works.

Autorenportrait

David Forrest is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies in the School of English at the University of SheffieldSue Vice is Professor of English Literature in the School of English at the University of Sheffield

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