Conflicting Masculinities Men in Television Period Drama

Name: Conflicting Masculinities Men in Television Period Drama
Brand: Continnuum-3PL
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By Katherine Byrne

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Never before has period drama offered viewers such an assortment of complex male characters, from transported felons and syphilitic detectives to shell shocked soldiers and gangland criminals. Neo-Victorian Gothic fictions like Penny Dreadful represent masculinity at its darkest, Poldark and Outlander have refashioned the romantic hero and anti-heritage series like Peaky Blinders portray masculinity in crisis, at moments when the patriarchy was being bombarded by forces like World War I, the rise of first wave feminism and the breakdown of Empire. Scholars of film, media, literature and history explore the very different types of maleness offered by contemporary television and show how the intersection of class, race, history and masculinity in period dramas has come to hold such broad appeal to twenty-first-century audiences.

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 322
Release Date:: 2019-11-28
Publication Date:: 2019-11-28
Publisher:: Continnuum-3PL
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1350144355
ISBN13:: 9781350144354
Weight:: 407 g
Height:: 140 cm
Width:: 216 cm
Thickness:: 17 cm

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