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.
