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
About the Editors and Contributors
