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Upstairs and Downstairs

British Costume Drama Television from The Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey

von: James Leggott, Julie Taddeo
CHF 90.00
Verlag:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	11.12.2014
ISBN/EAN:	9781442244832
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	328

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Titelbeschreibung

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 nostalgia, these shows can also provide a lens to examine the class and gender politics of both the past and present.
 

 
In Upstairs and Downstairs: British Costume Drama Television from The Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey, James Leggott and Julie Anne Taddeo provide a collection of essays that analyze key developments in the history of period dramas from the late 1960s to the present day. Contributors explore such issues as how the genre fulfills and disrupts notions of “quality television,” the process of adaptation, the relationship between UK and U.S. television, and the connection between the period drama and wider developments in TV and popular culture. Additional essays examine how fans shape the content and reception of these dramas and how the genre has articulated or generated debates about gender, sexuality, and class.
 

 
In addition to Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs, other programs discussed in this collection include Call the Midwife, Danger UXB, Mr. Selfridge, Parade’s End, Piece of Cake, and Poldark. Tracing the lineage of costume drama from landmark productions of the late 1960s and 1970s to some of the most talked-about productions of recent years, Upstairs and Downstairs will be of value to students, teachers, and researchers in the areas of film, television, Victorian studies, literature, gender studies, and British history and culture.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

This collection addresses the social and political contexts that have shaped the British TV costume drama as well as the changing historical contexts in which such programs are viewed again and again (in syndication, on DVD, youtube, etc.) and are reinterpreted by a thriving twenty-first-century global fan culture.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, Jerome de Groot Acknowledgments
 
Introduction, James Leggott and Julie Anne Taddeo
 
PART I: APPROACHES TO THE COSTUME DRAMA 
 
Chapter 1: Pageantry and Populism, Democratization and Dissent: The Forgotten 1970s
 
Claire Monk
 
Chapter 2: History’s Drama: Narrative Space in “Golden Age” British Television Drama
 
Tom Bragg
 
Chapter 3: “It’s not clever, it’s not funny, and it’s not period!”: Costume Comedy and British Television
 
James Leggott
 
Chapter 4: “It is but a glimpse of the world of fashion”: British Costume Drama, Dickens, and Serialization
 
Marc Napolitano
 
Chapter 5: Neverending Stories?:The Paradise and the Period Drama Series
 
Benjamin Poore
 
Chapter 6: Epistolarity and Masculinity in Andrew Davies's Trollope Adaptations
 
Ellen Moody
 
Chapter 7: “What are we going to do with Uncle Arthur?”: Music in the British Serialized Period Drama
 
Scott Strovas and Karen Beth Strovas
 
PART II: THE COSTUME DRAMA, HISTORY, AND HERITAGE
 
Chapter 8: British Historical Drama and the Middle Ages
 
Andrew B.R. Elliott
 
Chapter 9: Desacralizing the Icon: Elizabeth I and Television
 
Sabrina Alcorn Baron
 
Chapter 10: “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
 
Chapter 11: Good-Bye to All That: Piece of Cake, Danger UXB, and the Second World War
 
A. Bowdoin Van Riper
 
Chapter 12: Upstairs, Downstairs (2010-2012) and Narratives of Domestic and Foreign Appeasement
 
Giselle Bastin
 
Chapter 13: Downton Abbey and Heritage
 
Katherine Byrne
 
Chapter 14: Experimentation and Post-Heritage in Contemporary TV Drama: Parade’s End
 
Stella Hockenhull
 
PART III: THE COSTUME DRAMA, SEXUAL POLITICS, AND FANDOM
 
Chapter 15: “Why don’t you take her?”: Rape in the Poldark Narrative
 
Julie Anne Taddeo
 
Chapter 16: The Imaginative Power of Downton Abbey Fanfiction
 
Andrea Schmidt
 
Chapter 17: This Wonderful Commercial Machine: Gender, Class, and the Pleasures and Spectacle of Shopping in The Paradise and Mr. Selfridge
 
Andrea Wright
 
Chapter 18: Taking a Pregnant Pause: Interrogating the Feminist Potential of Call the Midwife
 
Louise FitzGerald
 
Chapter 19: Queer Lives: Representation and Reinterpretation in Upstairs, Downstairs and
 
Downton Abbey
 
Lucy Brown
 
Chapter 20: Troubled by Violence: Transnational Complexity and the Critique of Masculinity in Ripper Street
 
Elke Weissmann
 
Index<a></a>
 
About the Editors and Contributors

Autorenportrait

James Leggott teaches film and television at Northumbria University, UK. He has published on various aspects of British film and television culture and is the principal editor of the Journal of Popular Television.
 

 
Julie Anne Taddeo teaches history at the University of Maryland. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Popular Television and author of Lytton Strachey and the Searchfor Modern Sexual Identity (2002). She is the editor of Catherine Cookson:On the Borders of Legitimacy, Fiction, and History (2012) and co-editor of Steaming into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology (Scarecrow Press, 2012).