Upstairs and downstairs : : British costume drama television from The Forsyte saga to Downton Abbey / / edited by James Leggott, Julie Anne Taddeo.

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Place / Publishing House:Lanham : : Rowman & Littlefield,, [2015]
2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (330 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Approaches to the Costume Drama. 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
  • The Costume Drama, History, and Heritage. 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
  • The Costume Drama, Sexual Politics, and Fandom. "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.