Blue Remembered Hills

[jellytot01]

Hi,

Does anyone know the main genre in Blue Remembered Hills by Dennis Potter. I can't find an actual definition of the genre, i just keep finding 'script' or 't.v script'

Thanks

[dzug]

Don't be silly, it's Dennis Potter. It won't have a genre - it will be too individual to fit one.

[shaneystar2]

Dennis Potter has extensively exploited genre forms in a post-modem pastiche method, using supernatural fantasy, the romance story, the hardboiled detective yarn, futuristic sci- fi, and much more to enlarge his storytelling scope.
Potteresque...would be an ideal word to describe his genre.

[Hard@it]

Sorry to pinch a spot - Nothing to do with Dennis Potter - does anyone know the lines of Blue Remembered Hills from the film Walkabout with Jenny Agutter, and who wrote them?

[shaneystar2]

Never seen that film but it's probably A.E.Housman
Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?

That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.

[Hard@it]

Shaney star 2 - that's it Thanks

Not suggesting you are wrong is 'Kill' right or should it be chill ?

It is a beautiful film and worth seeing Cheers.

[Hard@it]

It is kill, it is from A Shropshire Lad Cheers