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Contemporary British Television Drama

Contemporary British Television Drama Media & Communication

Contemporary British Television Drama

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The early twenty-first century has seen the emergence of a new style of television drama in Britain that adopts the professional practices and production values of high-end American television while remaining emphatically 'British' in content and outlook. This book analyses eight of these dramas - Spooks, Foyle's War, Hustle, Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes, Downton Abbey, Sherlock and Broadchurch - which have all proved popular with audiences and in their different ways represent the thematic and formal paradigms of post-millennial drama.
James Chapman locates new British drama in its institutional and economic contexts, considers their critical and popular reception, and analyses their social politics in relation to their representations of class, gender and nationhood. He demonstrates how contemporary drama has mobilised both new and residual elements in re-configuring genres such as the spy series, cop show and costume drama for the cultural tastes of modern audiences. And it concludes that television drama has played an integral role in both the economic and the cultural export of 'Britishness'.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
198
Release Date:
2020-05-28
Publication Date:
2020-05-28
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1780765231
ISBN13:
9781780765235
Weight:
310 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
11 cm
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