Research Catalog

Title

Upstairs and downstairs : British costume drama television from The Forsyte saga to Downton Abbey / edited by James Leggott, Julie Anne Taddeo.

Publication

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Leggott, James
• Taddeo, Julie Anne

Description

xxx, 298 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Historical television programs > Great Britain > History and criticism
• Clothing and dress on television
• Television series > Great Britain

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction -- Approaches to the costume drama. Pageantry and populism, democratization and dissent: the forgotten 1970s / Claire Monk -- History's drama: narrative space in "golden age" British television drama / Tom Bragg -- "It's not clever, it's not funny, and it's not period!": costume comedy and British television / James Leggott -- "It is but a glimpse of the world of fashion": British costume drama, Dickens, and serialization / Marc Napolitano -- Never-ending stories?: The Paradise and the period drama series / Benjamin Poore -- Epistolarity and masculinity in Andrew Davies's Trollope adaptations / Ellen Moody -- "What are we going to do with Uncle Arthur?": music in the British serialized period drama / Karen Beth Strovas and Scott M. Strovas -- The costume drama, history, and heritage. British historical drama and the Middle Ages / Andrew B.R. Elliott -- Desacralizing the icon: Elizabeth I and television / Sabrina Alcorn Baron -- "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 --
• Good-bye to all that: Piece of Cake, Danger UXB, and the Second World War / A. Bowdoin Van Riper -- Upstairs, Downstairs (2010-2012) and narratives of domestic and foreign appeasement / Giselle Bastin -- New developments in heritage: the recent dark side of Downton "downer" Abbey / Katherine Byrne -- Experimentation and postheritage in contemporary tv drama: Parade's End / Stella Hockenhull -- The costume drama, sexual politics, and fandom. "Why don't you take her?": rape in the Poldark Narrative / Julie Anne Taddeo -- The imaginative power of Downton Abbey fan fiction / Andrea Schmidt -- This wonderful commercial machine: gender, class, and the pleasures and spectacle of shopping in The Paradise and Mr. Selfridge / Andrea Wright -- Taking a pregnant pause: interrogating the feminist potential of Call the Midwife / Louise FitzGerald -- Homosexual lives: representation and reinterpretation in Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey / Lucy Brown -- Troubled by violence: transnational complexity and the critique of masculinity in Ripper Street / Elke Weissmann.

Call Number

MWGT (Great Britain) 15-1112

ISBN

• 9781442244825 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1442244828 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9781442244832 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014031795

OCLC

890310154

Title

Upstairs and downstairs : British costume drama television from The Forsyte saga to Downton Abbey / edited by James Leggott, Julie Anne Taddeo.

Publisher

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Leggott, James, editor.

Taddeo, Julie Anne, editor.

Research Call Number

MWGT (Great Britain) 15-1112