Contemporary British Television Drama

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Av James Chapman

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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'.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-05-28
Mått156 x 234 x 15 mm
Vikt458 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor192
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781780765228

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James Chapman is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Leicester, UK, and editor of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. His previous books on British popular television are Swashbucklers: The Costume Adventure series (2015), Inside the Tardis: The Worlds of 'Doctor Who' - A Cultural History (2nd edn 2013) and Saints and Avengers: British Adventure Series of the 1960s (2002).

James Chapman writes 'golden ages are usually only apparent in hindsight' -but in this thoughtful and perceptive book he builds a convincing case that the early twenty first century is a special moment in British television drama. Among the many delights in this exhilarating study is the author's ability to see beyond our place and moment. Chapman deftly connects his texts into a century of British cultural production and, with equal dexterity, looks across to parallel achievements in the US and Europe. This is a path-breaking study which deserves to be widely read.