The paper discusses Samuel Beckett’s television plays in connection to the autonomy of means of artistic production. It points out a set of similarities between Beckett’s work with the television medium and with other media (theater, prose, radio): a critique of each genre convention (drama, novel, television film) and the development of the means of production. In this context, the article highlights the working conditions available to the artist at the Süddeutscher Rundfunk, in Stuttgart, and proposes an analysis of two television plays: Eh Joe and …but the clouds….
Samuel Beckett; Television Play; Means of Production