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050 4 _aPN1992.8.H56 -- U68 2015eb
082 0 _a791.45/65841
100 1 _aLeggott, James.
245 1 0 _aUpstairs and Downstairs :
_bBritish Costume Drama Television from the Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aBlue Ridge Summit :
_bRowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated,
_c2014.
264 4 _c©2014.
300 _a1 online resource (330 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 _aIntro -- 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.
520 _aThis 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.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aTelevision series -- Great Britain.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aTaddeo, Julie Anne.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aLeggott, James
_tUpstairs and Downstairs
_dBlue Ridge Summit : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated,c2014
_z9781442244825
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1901105
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