TY  - BOOK
AU  - Abbiss,Will Stanford
TI  - Post-heritage perspectives on British period drama television
T2  - Routledge advances in television studies
SN  - 9781003251460
U1  - 791.45/658 23/eng/20230130
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Historical television programs
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - National characteristics, British, on television
KW  - Group identity on television
KW  - Television series
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
KW  - bisacsh
N2  - "Drawing upon the existing scholarship of period drama and emerging research into new media ecologies, instigated by television streaming services such as Netflix, this book establishes a critical framework for understanding the representation of nationhood and cultural identity in television drama. By formalising the term 'post-heritage' the book proposes a methodology which recognises the interplay of traditional and innovative elements within period drama productions. The book applies this critical perspective to popular British period drama productions from the 2010s, with examples including The Crown, the 'society dramas' of Upstairs Downstairs and Downton Abbey, Steven Knight's Dickens adaptations, and Stephen Poliakoff's recent oeuvre, to demonstrate the benefits of evaluating period drama as part of twenty-first century television's developments. It challenges the assumptions around characteristics and ideological purpose that period drama discourse often contends with, and offers new perspectives on understanding the past through televisual representations. This book will be important reading for students and scholars of television studies, film studies, and cultural studies"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003251460
ER  -