Avengerland: A Critical Guide
Avengerland: A Critical Guide

Author: Rodney Marshall

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-10-27

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 1326461796

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At the vanguard of a 1960s cultural revolution, The Avengers was both critically acclaimed and commercially popular. As Britain's imperial power crumbled away, the television series began to colonise the globe. Critic Rodney Marshall is the son of Avengers script writer Roger Marshall. He has written and/or edited nine books on the series. Avengerland: A Critical Guide brings the main chapters from these previous volumes under one cover. In addition to a number of general essays, the guide explores fifty of the filmed episodes in depth, analysing the show from monochrome film through 'Glorious Technicolor' to its reincarnation as The New Avengers. Avengerland is an indispensable guide for fans of this iconic show.

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Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1326514210

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Avengerland Regained
Avengerland Regained

Author: Rodney Marshall

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-06-24

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 1326308130

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The Avengers was a unique, genre-defying television series which blurred the traditional boundaries between 'light entertainment' and disturbing drama. It was a product of the constantly-evolving 1960s yet retains a timeless charm. The creation of The New Avengers, in 1976, saw John Steed re-emerge, alongside two younger co-leads: sophisticated action girl Purdey and Gambit, a 'hard man' with a soft centre. The cultural context had changed - including the technology, music, fashions, cars, fighting styles and television drama itself - but Avengerland was able to re-establish itself. Nazi invaders, a third wave of cybernauts, Hitchcockian killer birds, a sleeping city, giant rat, a deadly health spa, a skyscraper with a destructive mind...The 1970s series is, paradoxically, both new yet also part of the rich, innovative Avengers history. Avengerland Regained draws on the knowledge of a broad range of experts and fans as it explores the final vintage of The Avengers.

Avengerland Revisited
Avengerland Revisited

Author: Rodney Marshall

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2015-12-20

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9781522846253

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Avengerland Revisited offers the definitive guide to this iconic series, with the filmed era of the show reviewed from every possible angle. Both editions contain the same content. It places the original series within its 1960s context and explores the ingredients which combine to make both The Avengers and The New Avengers unique: iconic characters; innovative script writers and direction; fashions; music; cars; sets and locations; the display of martial arts. Writers examine the structural elements of the show's winning formula: the main titles; teasers; tags. Essays tackle key themes: the country house trap; graveyards; the art of murder; in addition to looking at why this quintessentially British show is such an international success. Avengers veterans Roger Marshall and Raymond Austin offer insiders' views and Alan Hayes pays homage to the late, great Patrick Macnee. The Avengers is a unique, genre-defying television series which blurs the traditional boundaries between 'light entertainment' and subversive drama. It was a product of the constantly-evolving 1960s and the eclectic 1970s, yet retains a timeless charm. Avengerland Revisited is the definitive guide to that surreal never-never land.

Avengerland Revisited
Avengerland Revisited

Author: Rodney Marshall

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2015-12-21

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9781522842866

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Avengerland Revisited offers the definitive guide to this iconic series, with the filmed era of the show reviewed from every possible angle. Both editions contain the same content.It places the original series within its 1960s context and explores the ingredients which combine to make both The Avengers and The New Avengers unique: iconic characters; innovative script writers and direction; fashions; music; cars; sets and locations; the display of martial arts. Writers examine the structural elements of the show's winning formula: the main titles; teasers; tags. Essays tackle key themes: the country house trap; graveyards; the art of murder; in addition to looking at why this quintessentially British show is such an international success. Avengers veterans Roger Marshall and Raymond Austin offer insiders' views and Alan Hayes pays homage to the late, great Patrick Macnee.The Avengers is a unique, genre-defying television series which blurs the traditional boundaries between 'light entertainment' and subversive drama. It was a product of the constantly-evolving 1960s and the eclectic 1970s, yet retains a timeless charm.Avengerland Revisited is the definitive guide to that surreal never-never land.

Why?
Why?

Author: Rodney Marshall

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-11-28

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1326879642

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Father of two, David Jennings is divorced and working as a professor of literature in Singapore. Out of the blue he receives a phone call from his ex-wife, Anne. Their daughter, Kate, a promising university student, has been found dead on a bleak hillside outside Brighton. The police are convinced that she has taken her own life. The coroner's Open Verdict encourages him to start his own, guilt-ridden investigations into her death. As Jennings journeys into his daughter's past, the harrowing mission takes us to London, Bogotá and the English coastline, in a search to understand 'Why?' But what if the truth is worse than not knowing?

Day of Execution
Day of Execution

Author: Rodney Marshall

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-01-03

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 024471505X

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Television drama is frequently marginalised as a piece of fleeting popular culture rather than 'a more lasting art form'. The emergence of television studies has helped to question this mind-set. Innovative television drama can rival any field of the arts in terms of material worthy of critical exploration. This series of books focuses on 'outstanding' examples of British television dramas, centring on a single episode in an attempt to explain what makes both the episode in particular, and the series in general, remarkable. The social context, script, characters sets/locations, music, and direction are all focal points. This Classic British Television Drama (CBTD) series of books continues with an exploration of Man in a Suitcase's episode Day of Execution. Elements of Cold War espionage, American gumshoe, British thriller and 'Swinging' London combine in a series which is hard to define and was, arguably, ahead of its time.

Blurred Boundaries
Blurred Boundaries

Author: Rodney Marshall

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-10-09

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1326862111

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In the mid-1980s, in Edinburgh, Ian Rankin was hatching a plot for a 'crime thriller' from his student digs. Knots & Crosses - like its frayed protagonist John Rebus - was rough around the edges but marked a promising debut. More than thirty years later, Rankin and Rebus have a global following. The series has been both critically acclaimed and commercially popular. Detective John Rebus is anything but conventional. The same can be said of Ian Rankin's innovative texts which take crime fiction far beyond formulaic genre, producing radical, disruptive, borderline texts. In the first ever full-length study of all twenty-two Rebus novels, Rodney Marshall argues that Rankin's fiction continues to break new ground, blurring the boundaries between traditional detective novel and modern literature. October 2018 sixth edition: includes an exclusive eighteen page interview with Ian Rankin and a chapter on In a House of Lies, Rankin's new Rebus novel.

Anticlockwise
Anticlockwise

Author: Rodney Marshall

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-12-11

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 132611820X

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The Avengers was a unique, genre-defying television series which blurred the traditional boundaries between 'light entertainment' and disturbing drama. It was a product of the constantly-evolving 1960s yet retains a timeless charm. The arrival of Tara King and Mother saw The Avengers shaken and stirred, as writers and directors playfully engaged with a variety of film and television genres. Steed and Tara face increasingly odd adventures and dangers: killer clowns, a giant nose, love drugs, deadly board games, duplicate Steeds, Victorian fog, an underground 'paradise', and vengeful Home Counties cowboys. Anticlockwise draws on the knowledge of a broad range of experts and fans of The Avengers as it explores the surreal, unpredictable, psychedelic world of Tara King. "The Avengers challenged audiences to enjoy art beyond the ordinary." (Matthew Lee) "The Avengers is a wonderful example of avoiding the tyranny of common sense." (Robert Fuest)

Travelling Man: A Critical Guide
Travelling Man: A Critical Guide

Author: Rodney Marshall

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-05-16

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 1326277367

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Drawing inspiration from the private detective and Western genres, as well as the cult 1960s series The Fugitive, Roger Marshall's mid-1980s drama Travelling Man was both critically acclaimed and commercially popular, drawing audiences of up to 13.2 million viewers. Ex-Drugs Squad detective and jailbird Alan Lomax is a fascinatingly flawed protagonist, but it is the setting of the canals and inland waterways of Britain which provide the unique charm of Travelling Man, offering the perfect backdrop for Lomax's nomadic quests. The canals also dictate the show's leisured pace. Avengers expert Rodney Marshall offers a critical guide to all thirteen episodes, exploring the scripts, direction, characterisation, acting and music. ""One thing about quiet waterways, you can hear footsteps.""