Upstairs and Downstairs : British Costume Drama Television from the Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey.
Leggott, James.
Upstairs and Downstairs : British Costume Drama Television from the Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (330 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Approaches to the Costume Drama -- 1 Pageantry and Populism, Democratization and Dissent -- 2 History's Drama -- 3 "It's not clever, it's not funny, and it's not period!" -- 4 "It is but a glimpse of the world of fashion" -- 5 Never-Ending Stories? -- 6 Epistolarity and Masculinity in Andrew Davies's Trollope Adaptations -- 7 "What Are We Going to Do with Uncle Arthur?" -- Part II: The Costume Drama, History, and Heritage -- 8 British Historical Drama and the Middle Ages -- 9 Desacralizing the Icon -- 10 "It's not the navy-we don't stand back to stand upwards" -- 11 Good-Bye to All That -- 12 Upstairs, Downstairs (2010-2012) and Narratives of Domestic and Foreign Appeasement -- 13 New Developments in Heritage -- 14 Experimentation and Postheritage in Contemporary TV Drama -- Part III: The Costume Drama, Sexual Politics, and Fandom -- 15 "Why don't you take her?" -- 16 The Imaginative Power of Downton Abbey Fan Fiction -- 17 This Wonderful Commercial Machine -- 18 Taking a Pregnant Pause -- 19 Homosexual Lives -- 20 Troubled by Violence -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.
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.
9781442244832
Television series -- Great Britain.
Electronic books.
PN1992.8.H56 -- U68 2015eb
791.45/65841
Upstairs and Downstairs : British Costume Drama Television from the Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (330 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Approaches to the Costume Drama -- 1 Pageantry and Populism, Democratization and Dissent -- 2 History's Drama -- 3 "It's not clever, it's not funny, and it's not period!" -- 4 "It is but a glimpse of the world of fashion" -- 5 Never-Ending Stories? -- 6 Epistolarity and Masculinity in Andrew Davies's Trollope Adaptations -- 7 "What Are We Going to Do with Uncle Arthur?" -- Part II: The Costume Drama, History, and Heritage -- 8 British Historical Drama and the Middle Ages -- 9 Desacralizing the Icon -- 10 "It's not the navy-we don't stand back to stand upwards" -- 11 Good-Bye to All That -- 12 Upstairs, Downstairs (2010-2012) and Narratives of Domestic and Foreign Appeasement -- 13 New Developments in Heritage -- 14 Experimentation and Postheritage in Contemporary TV Drama -- Part III: The Costume Drama, Sexual Politics, and Fandom -- 15 "Why don't you take her?" -- 16 The Imaginative Power of Downton Abbey Fan Fiction -- 17 This Wonderful Commercial Machine -- 18 Taking a Pregnant Pause -- 19 Homosexual Lives -- 20 Troubled by Violence -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.
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.
9781442244832
Television series -- Great Britain.
Electronic books.
PN1992.8.H56 -- U68 2015eb
791.45/65841