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Swashbucklers : The Costume Adventure Series.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (296 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780719098932
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: SwashbucklersDDC classification:
  • 791.456
LOC classification:
  • PN1992.8.A317
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Notes -- 1 Exporting Englishness -- The political economy of The Adventures of Robin Hood -- Sapphire Films and the making of The Adventures of Robin Hood -- The reception of The Adventures of Robin Hood -- The Adventures of Robin Hood and the Robin Hood myth -- The politics of The Adventures of Robin Hood -- The Adventures of Robin Hood and the Cold War -- Coda: Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960) -- Notes -- 2 Fantasy factories -- The Sapphire standard: The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1956), The Buccaneers (1956), Sword of Freedom (1957) -- Other early Swashbucklers: The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1955), The Count of Monte Cristo (1955)... -- Swashbuckling Westerns: The Last of the Mohicans (1957) and Zorro (1957-58) -- ITP goes it alone: William Tell (1958) and Sir Francis Drake (1961) -- Coda: The BBC and Hornblower (1963) -- Notes -- 3 Revisionist revivals -- The once and future king: Arthur of the Britons (1972) -- Revisionist Robin: The Legend of Robin Hood (1975) -- Stevenson redux: The Black Arrow (1972-74), Kidnapped (1979), The Master of Ballantrae (1984) -- Notes -- 4 Rebels with a cause -- The myth of the English highwayman: Dick Turpin (1979-81) -- The outlaw as hero: Smuggler (1981) and Adventurer (1987) -- Radical Robin: Robin of Sherwood (1984-86) -- Notes -- 5 Heritage heroes -- Primetime Dumas: The Count of Monte-Cristo (1976) and The Man in the Iron Mask (1977) -- Romantic heroes: Ivanhoe (1982) and The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982) -- Boy's own epics: Sharpe (1993-97) and Hornblower (1998-2003) -- French connections: The Count of Monte Cristo (1998) -- Notes -- 6 Millennial mavericks.
Cable crusaders: Zorro (1990-92), The New Adventures of Robin Hood (1997-98), Queen of Swords (2000) -- Revisionist remakes: Ivanhoe (1997) and The Scarlet Pimpernel (1999-2000) -- Return of the hoodie: Robin Hood (2006-09) -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Swashbucklers is the first study of one of the most popular and enduring genres in television history - the costume adventure series.
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Notes -- 1 Exporting Englishness -- The political economy of The Adventures of Robin Hood -- Sapphire Films and the making of The Adventures of Robin Hood -- The reception of The Adventures of Robin Hood -- The Adventures of Robin Hood and the Robin Hood myth -- The politics of The Adventures of Robin Hood -- The Adventures of Robin Hood and the Cold War -- Coda: Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960) -- Notes -- 2 Fantasy factories -- The Sapphire standard: The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1956), The Buccaneers (1956), Sword of Freedom (1957) -- Other early Swashbucklers: The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1955), The Count of Monte Cristo (1955)... -- Swashbuckling Westerns: The Last of the Mohicans (1957) and Zorro (1957-58) -- ITP goes it alone: William Tell (1958) and Sir Francis Drake (1961) -- Coda: The BBC and Hornblower (1963) -- Notes -- 3 Revisionist revivals -- The once and future king: Arthur of the Britons (1972) -- Revisionist Robin: The Legend of Robin Hood (1975) -- Stevenson redux: The Black Arrow (1972-74), Kidnapped (1979), The Master of Ballantrae (1984) -- Notes -- 4 Rebels with a cause -- The myth of the English highwayman: Dick Turpin (1979-81) -- The outlaw as hero: Smuggler (1981) and Adventurer (1987) -- Radical Robin: Robin of Sherwood (1984-86) -- Notes -- 5 Heritage heroes -- Primetime Dumas: The Count of Monte-Cristo (1976) and The Man in the Iron Mask (1977) -- Romantic heroes: Ivanhoe (1982) and The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982) -- Boy's own epics: Sharpe (1993-97) and Hornblower (1998-2003) -- French connections: The Count of Monte Cristo (1998) -- Notes -- 6 Millennial mavericks.

Cable crusaders: Zorro (1990-92), The New Adventures of Robin Hood (1997-98), Queen of Swords (2000) -- Revisionist remakes: Ivanhoe (1997) and The Scarlet Pimpernel (1999-2000) -- Return of the hoodie: Robin Hood (2006-09) -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index.

Swashbucklers is the first study of one of the most popular and enduring genres in television history - the costume adventure series.

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