New PDF release: Upstairs and Downstairs: British Costume Drama Television

By James Leggott,Julie Taddeo

ISBN-10: 1442244828

ISBN-13: 9781442244825

The overseas luck of Downton Abbey has ended in a revived curiosity in interval dramas, with older courses like The Forsyte Saga being rediscovered by way of a brand new iteration of enthusiasts whose tastes additionally comprise grittier fare like Ripper Street. even though frequently criticized as a sort of escapist, conservative nostalgia, those indicates may also supply a lens to envision the category and gender politics of either the previous and present.

In Upstairs and Downstairs: British gown Drama tv from The Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey, James Leggott and Julie Anne Taddeo offer a suite of essays that study key advancements within the historical past of interval dramas from the past due Nineteen Sixties to the current day. individuals discover such matters as how the style fulfills and disrupts notions of “quality television,” the method of model, the connection among united kingdom and U.S. tv, and the relationship among the interval drama and wider advancements in television and pop culture. extra essays learn how fanatics form the content material and reception of those dramas and the way the style has articulated or generated debates approximately gender, sexuality, and class.

In addition to Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs, different courses mentioned during this assortment contain Call the Midwife, Danger UXB, Mr. Selfridge, Parade’s End, Piece of Cake, and Poldark. Tracing the lineage of dress drama from landmark productions of the overdue Nineteen Sixties and Seventies to a couple of the main talked-about productions of contemporary years, Upstairs and Downstairs will be of worth to scholars, academics, and researchers within the components of movie, tv, Victorian reviews, literature, gender reports, and British background and culture.

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