Introduction: Stuart Marshall thinking through television. (December 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: McCabe, Janet; McStravick, Conal
• Is Part Of: Critical studies in television. Volume 14:Number 4(2019)
• Page Start: 473
• Page End: 479
• Publication Date: 2019-12
• Subjects: TV essay -- Stuart Marshall -- Channel 4 -- TV archive as activism -- queer history as televisual materiality; Television -- Periodicals; Television criticism -- Periodicals; 384.5505
• DOI: 10.1177/1749602019876747
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1749-6020

Abstract

This TV essay dossier is devoted to Stuart Marshall (1949–1993). It selectively reprints an archive of his ideas, photographs and writing as illustrative of Marshall's thinking through television as an extended critique of the televisual – sound and image –, as well as how this way of thinking through practice translates into an TV essayistic mode used to comment directly on the nature of image-making and the medium itself. Interwoven with this material archive is an original essay by Colin Perry, as well as In Conversation between Rebecca Dobbs (Marshall's producer) and Caroline Spry (commissioner of his work at Channel 4).