Man in a Suitcase: ITC-land Volume 1 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781514691380)

Lew Grade's pioneering ITC company created a production line of quirky new drama series for British Independent Television in the 1960s, fulfilling a vision of providing entertaining, colour film series for a global market. In the first of a proposed series of critical guides, Avengers expert Rodney Marshall and television historian Matthew Lee explore ITC's Man in a Suitcase. Their book offers new, inventive readings of all thirty episodes.Man in a Suitcase is a product of its mid-1960s context, exploring themes such as Cold War espionage and Swinging Sixties playgirls, yet most of the stories also have a timeless feel to them: political corruption, blackmail, murder, missing persons or money, art theft. Despite the private detective/bounty hunter formula, there are welcome elements of playfulness, quirkiness, surrealism and a healthy abundance of social and political critique. Man in a Suitcase cannot be simplistically labelled as 'light entertainment' given the dark subject matter and its treatment. It blurs the boundaries between television drama genres."A product of its time and a timeless product: Man in a Suitcase will always be a conundrum." (Matthew Lee)

Author: Matthew Lee, Rodney Marshall
ISBN-10: 1514691388
ISBN-13: 9781514691380
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2015
Pages: 370
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77d