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BFI TV CLASSICS – THE LIKELY LADS
From this week Phil Wickham’s BFI TV Classic on ‘The Likely Lads’ is available to buy:
The book looks at classic 60s sitcom ‘The Likely Lads’ and its even more famous 70s follow-up ‘Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?’. Phil Wickham explores what the series says about Bob and Terry’s times, from the affluent 60s to the more troubled decade that followed, and how ‘The Likely Lads’ tackles issues of class and masculinity. He also considers the nature of the series’ humour and its place in the tradition of British sitcom before examining the way it appeals to its audience by raising questions about time, failure, and the realities of everyday life. His discussions are informed by interviews with the writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
Phil Wickham is the Curator of The Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture at the University of Exeter. He was previously a TV Curator at the British Film Institute and is a member of the advisory board of the BFI TV Classics series. He is the author of ‘Understanding Television Texts’ (BFI, 2007) and writes and lectures extensively on British film and television.
For more information and to purchase ‘The Likely Lads’go to -
http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/info_6196.html
or http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=307922
‘The Likely Lads’ is part of the BFI TV Classics series, which offers insightful and accessible critical studies of some of the most important TV texts. Titles already published in the series are:
The Office by Ben Walters
Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Anne Billson
Doctor Who by Kim Newman
Our Friends in the North by Michael Eaton
The Singing Detective by Glen Creeber
Seinfeld by Nicholas Mirzoeff
Queer as Folk by Glyn Davis
Seven Up by Stella Bruzzi
Edge of Darkness by John Caughie
Coming soon
Star Trek by Ina Rae Hark
The League of Gentlemen by Leon Hunt
Cracker by Mark Duguid
CSI by Steven.M.Cohen
Phil Wickham
Curator
The Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture
University of Exeter
Old Library
Prince of Wales Road
Exeter
Devon
EX4 4SB
01392 264321