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This Life (BBC2, 1996–97) formed part of a ‘new wave’ of British television drama that emerged in the mid-1990s.1 One of the hallmarks of this new wave was a new, ‘post-modern’ televisual style consisting of a faster narrative tempo, more mobile camerawork, unusual camera angles, a colourful mise en scene and fantasy sequences. This new style of television drama was designed to cater for a new post-modern audience, an audience that had not been reared on the slower narrative pace of studio drama and which demanded different representations of contemporary life in the 1990s, not those offered by costume drama or even those to be found in mainstream contemporary television drama, such as soap opera.
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Cooke, L. (2013). This Life (BBC2, 1996). In: Style in British Television Drama. Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137265920_8
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