Dennis Potter - Revision history

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	{{short description\|English TV dramatist, screenwriter, journalist}}		{{short description\|English TV dramatist, screenwriter, journalist}}
	~~{{Use British English\|date=July 2013}}~~		{{Infobox writer
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	{{Infobox writer ~~<!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->~~
	\| name = Dennis Potter		\| name = Dennis Potter
	\| image = ~~Potterlife~~.jpg		\| image = Dennis Potter.jpg
	\| caption = ~~Cover of ''The Life and Work of Dennis Potter''~~		\| caption =
	\| birth_name = {{Nowrap\|Dennis Christopher George Potter}}		\| birth_name = {{Nowrap\|Dennis Christopher George Potter}}
	\| birth_date = {{birth date\|1935\|5\|17\|df=y}}		\| birth_date = {{birth date\|1935\|5\|17\|df=y}}

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	==External links==		==External links==
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	* [http://www.yorksj.ac.uk/potter/ Dennis Potter official site]		* [http://www.yorksj.ac.uk/potter/ Dennis Potter official site]
	* [http://www.zenbullets.com/britfilm/potter/ ''The Singing Detective'' – Exploring Dennis Potter's Thematic Preoccupations] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704051219/http://www.zenbullets.com/britfilm/potter/ \|date=4 July 2008 }} British Film Resource		* [http://www.zenbullets.com/britfilm/potter/ ''The Singing Detective'' – Exploring Dennis Potter's Thematic Preoccupations] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704051219/http://www.zenbullets.com/britfilm/potter/ \|date=4 July 2008 }} British Film Resource
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	* {{IMDb name\|id=0693259\|name=Dennis Potter}}		* {{IMDb name\|id=0693259\|name=Dennis Potter}}

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	[[Category:Alumni of New College, Oxford]]		[[Category:Alumni of New College, Oxford]]
	[[Category:British male television writers]]		[[Category:British male television writers]]
	~~[[Category:Deaths from cancer in England]]~~
	~~[[Category:Deaths from pancreatic cancer]]~~
	[[Category:Edgar Award winners]]		[[Category:Edgar Award winners]]
	[[Category:English male dramatists and playwrights]]		[[Category:English male dramatists and playwrights]]

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	==Personal life==		==Personal life==
	On 10 January 1959, at the Christ Church parish church in Berry Hill, he married Margaret Amy Morgan (14 August 1933 – 29 May 1994), a local woman he met at a dance.<ref name=dt /> They lived a "surprisingly quiet private life" at [[Ross-on-Wye]], [[Herefordshire]], and had three children, Robert, Jane, and [[Sarah Potter\|Sarah]]. The latter achieved prominence in the 1980s as an international [[cricket]]er.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/53833.html\|title=Sarah Potter \|website=Cricinfo}}</ref>		On 10 January 1959, at the Christ Church parish church in Berry Hill, he married Margaret Amy Morgan (14 August 1933 – 29 May 1994), a local woman he met at a dance.<ref name=dt /> They lived a "surprisingly quiet private life" at [[Ross-on-Wye]], [[Herefordshire]], and had three children, Robert, Jane, and [[Sarah Potter\|Sarah]]. The latter achieved prominence in the 1980s as an international [[cricket]]er.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/53833.html\|title=Sarah Potter \|website=Cricinfo}}</ref>

	~~==See also==~~
	* [[Dennis Potter bibliography]]

	==References==		==References==

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Style and themes

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	==Style and themes==		==Style and themes==
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	Potter's work is known for its use of non-naturalistic devices. These include the extensive use of [[Flashback (narrative)\|flashback]] and [[Nonlinear narrative\|nonlinear]] plot structure (''Casanova''; ''Late Call''), [[breaking the fourth wall\|direct to camera address]] (''Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton'') and works where "the child is father to the man", in which he used adult actors to play children (''Stand Up, Nigel Barton''; ''Blue Remembered Hills''). The '[[lip-sync]]' technique he developed for his "serials with songs" (''Pennies from Heaven''; ''The Singing Detective'' and ''Lipstick on Your Collar'') is perhaps the best known of the Potter trademarks. They are frequently used in works where the line between fantasy and reality becomes blurred, often as a result of the influence of popular culture (Willie, the [[Wild West]] obsessive played by [[Hywel Bennett]] in ''Where the Buffalo Roam'') or from a character's apparent awareness of their status as a pawn in the hands of an omniscient author (the actor Jack Black (Denholm Elliott) in ''[[Follow the Yellow Brick Road]]'' first broadcast in 1972).		Potter's work is known for its use of non-naturalistic devices. These include the extensive use of [[Flashback (narrative)\|flashback]] and [[Nonlinear narrative\|nonlinear]] plot structure (''Casanova''; ''Late Call''), [[breaking the fourth wall\|direct to camera address]] (''Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton'') and works where "the child is father to the man", in which he used adult actors to play children (''Stand Up, Nigel Barton''; ''Blue Remembered Hills''). The '[[lip-sync]]' technique he developed for his "serials with songs" (''Pennies from Heaven''; ''The Singing Detective'' and ''Lipstick on Your Collar'') is perhaps the best known of the Potter trademarks. They are frequently used in works where the line between fantasy and reality becomes blurred, often as a result of the influence of popular culture (Willie, the [[Wild West]] obsessive played by [[Hywel Bennett]] in ''Where the Buffalo Roam'') or from a character's apparent awareness of their status as a pawn in the hands of an omniscient author (the actor Jack Black (Denholm Elliott) in ''[[Follow the Yellow Brick Road]]'' first broadcast in 1972).

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