Upstairs and downstairs : British costume drama television from the Forsyte saga to Downton Abbey /

The international success of Downton Abbey has led to a revived interest in period dramas, with older programs like The Forsyte Saga being rediscovered by a new generation of fans whose tastes also include grittier fare like Ripper Street. Though often criticized as a form of escapist, conservative...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Leggott, James (Editor ), Taddeo, Julie Anne (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
Temas:
Historical television programs > Great Britain > History and criticism.
Clothing and dress on television.
Television series > Great Britain.
Émissions historiques télévisées > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire et critique.
Séries télévisées > Grande-Bretagne.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Clothing and dress on television
Historical television programs
Television series
Films, cinema.
Television.
United Kingdom, Great Britain.
Cultural studies.
Electronic, holographic & video art.
Film history, theory & criticism.
Popular culture.
Reference works.
Performing Arts.
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Pageantry and populism, democratization and dissent: the forgotten 1970s / Claire Monk
  • History's drama: narrative space in "Golden Age" British television drama / Tom Bragg
  • "It's not clever, it's not funny, and it's not period!": costume comedy and British television / James Leggott
  • "It is but a glimpse of the world of fashion": British costume drama, Dickens, and serialization / Marc Napolitano
  • Neverending stories?: the paradise and the period drama series / Benjamin Poore
  • Epistolarity and masculinity in Andrew Davies's Trollope adaptations / Ellen Moody
  • "What are we going to do with Uncle Arthur?": music in the British serialized period drama / Scott Strovas and Karen Beth Strovas
  • British historical drama and the Middle Ages / Andrew B.R. Elliott
  • Desacralizing the icon: Elizabeth I and television / Sabrina Alcorn Baron
  • "It's not the navy" We don't stand back to stand upwards": The Onedin line and the changing waters of British Maritime identity / Mark Fryers
  • Good-bye to all that: Piece of Cake, Danger UXB, and the Second World War / A. Bowdoin Van Riper
  • Upstairs, downstairs (2010-2012) and narratives of domestic and foreign appeasement / Giselle Bastin
  • Downton Abbey and heritage / Katherine Byrne
  • Experimentation and post-heritage in contemporary TV drama: parade's end / Stella Hockenhull
  • "Why don't you take her?": rape in the Poldark narrative / Julie Anne Taddeo
  • The imaginative power of Downton Abbey fanfiction / Andrea Schmidt
  • This wonderful commercial machine: gender, class, and the pleasures and spectacle of shopping in the paradise and Mr. Selfridge / Andrea Wright
  • Taking a pregnant pause: interrogating the feminist potential of Call the Midwife / Louise FitzGerald
  • Queer lives: representation and reinterpretation in Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey / Lucy Brown
  • Troubled by violence: transnational complexity and the critique of masculinity in Ripper Street / Elke Weissmann.

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