Upstairs and Downstairs: British Costume Drama Television from The Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey PDF
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Upstairs and Downstairs Upstairs and Downstairs British Costume Drama Television from The Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey Edited by James Leggott Julie Anne Taddeo ROWMAN&LITTLEFIELD Lanham•Boulder•NewYork•London PublishedbyRowman&Littlefield AwhollyownedsubsidiaryofTheRowman&LittlefieldPublishingGroup,Inc. 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706 www.rowman.com 16CarlisleStreet,LondonW1D3BT,UnitedKingdom Copyright©2015byRowman&Littlefield Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Upstairsanddownstairs:BritishcostumedramatelevisionfromTheForsytesagatoDowntonAbbey /editedbyJamesLeggott,JulieAnneTaddeo. pagescm Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-1-4422-4482-5(cloth:alk.paper)–ISBN978-1-4422-4483-2(ebook) 1.Historicaltelevisionprograms–GreatBritain–Historyandcriticism.2.Clothinganddresson television.3.Televisionseries–GreatBritain.I.Leggott,James,editor.II.Taddeo,JulieAnne,editor. PN1992.8.H56U682015 791.45'65841–dc23 2014031795 TMThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica Contents Foreword ix JeromedeGroot Acknowledgments xiii Introduction xv JamesLeggottandJulieAnneTaddeo PartI:ApproachestotheCostumeDrama 1 1 PageantryandPopulism,DemocratizationandDissent:The Forgotten1970s 3 ClaireMonk 2 History’sDrama:NarrativeSpacein“GoldenAge”British TelevisionDrama 23 TomBragg 3 “It’snotclever,it’snotfunny,andit’snotperiod!”:Costume ComedyandBritishTelevision 37 JamesLeggott 4 “Itisbutaglimpseoftheworldoffashion”:BritishCostume Drama,Dickens,andSerialization 53 MarcNapolitano 5 Never-EndingStories?:TheParadiseandthePeriodDramaSeries 67 BenjaminPoore 6 EpistolarityandMasculinityinAndrewDavies’sTrollope Adaptations 79 EllenMoody v vi Contents 7 “WhatAreWeGoingtoDowithUncleArthur?”:Musicinthe BritishSerializedPeriodDrama 95 KarenBethStrovasandScottM.Strovas PartII:TheCostumeDrama,History,andHeritage 111 8 BritishHistoricalDramaandtheMiddleAges 113 AndrewB.R.Elliott 9 DesacralizingtheIcon:ElizabethIonTelevision 125 SabrinaAlcornBaron 10 “It’snotthenavy—wedon’tstandbacktostandupwards”:The OnedinLineandtheChangingWatersofBritishMaritimeIdentity 139 MarkFryers 11 Good-ByetoAllThat:PieceofCake,DangerUXB,andthe SecondWorldWar 153 A.BowdoinVanRiper 12 Upstairs,Downstairs(2010–2012)andNarrativesofDomestic andForeignAppeasement 165 GiselleBastin 13 NewDevelopmentsinHeritage:TheRecentDarkSideof Downton“Downer”Abbey 177 KatherineByrne 14 ExperimentationandPostheritageinContemporaryTVDrama: Parade’sEnd 191 StellaHockenhull PartIII:TheCostumeDrama,SexualPolitics,andFandom 205 15 “Whydon’tyoutakeher?”:RapeinthePoldarkNarrative 207 JulieAnneTaddeo 16 TheImaginativePowerofDowntonAbbeyFanFiction 223 AndreaSchmidt 17 ThisWonderfulCommercialMachine:Gender,Class,andthe PleasuresandSpectacleofShoppinginTheParadiseandMr. Selfridge 235 AndreaWright 18 TakingaPregnantPause:InterrogatingtheFeministPotentialof CalltheMidwife 249 LouiseFitzGerald 19 HomosexualLives:RepresentationandReinterpretationin Upstairs,DownstairsandDowntonAbbey 263 LucyBrown Contents vii 20 TroubledbyViolence:TransnationalComplexityandthe CritiqueofMasculinityinRipperStreet 275 ElkeWeissmann Index 287 AbouttheEditorsandContributors 293
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