Social Class and Television Drama in Contemporary Britain
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-55505-2 (ISBN)
David Forrest is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is the author of Social Realism: Art, Nationhood and Politics (2013), co-editor of Filmurbia: Screening The Suburbs (2017) with Graeme Harper and Jonathan Rayner, and is currently at work on a book entitled New Realisms: Contemporary British Cinema. Beth Johnson is Associate Professor of Film and Media at the University of Leeds, UK. Her publications include Paul Abbott (2013) and alongside David Forrest she recently co-edited a dossier on ‘Northern English Stardom’ in The Journal of Popular Television (4/2, 2016).
1. Introduction (David Forrest and Beth Johnson).- Part I: Authorship and Class - 2. Beth Johnson (The University of Leeds) – This is England: Authorship, Critical Contexts and Class Telly.- 3. David Forrest (The University of Sheffield) – Jimmy McGovern’s The Street and the Politics of Everyday Life.- 4. Stephen Harper (The University of Portsmouth) - High-flyers, Hooligans and Helpmates: Images of Social Class in the Television Dramas of Stephen Poliakoff.- Part II: Institutions and Structures of Class - 5. Paul Elliott (University of Worcester) - Through Class Darkly: Class in the British TV Noir.- 6. Felicity Colman and David James (Manchester Metropolitan University) - Military Class: Hearts and Minds on the Domestic Screen.- 7. Gill Jamieson (University of the West of Scotland) - Creating a Level Playing Field: ‘Honest Endeavour Together!’: Social Mobility, Entrepreneurialism and Class in Mr Selfridge.- 8. James Dalby (Universityof Gloucestershire) - Social Class and Television Audiences in the 1990s.- 9. HollyGale Millette (The University of Southampton) - Searching for Hugh Gaitskell in a Neoliberal Landscape – Masculinities and Class Mobility in Goodnight Sweetheart.- Part III: Place and Class - 10. James Leggott (Northumbria University) - From Newcastle to Nashville: The Northern Soul of Jimmy Nail.- 11. Het Phillips (University of Birmingham) - ‘A Woman Like That Is Not A Woman, Quite. I Have Been Her Kind’: Maxine Peake and the Gothic Excess of Northern Femininity.- 12. Paul Long (Birmingham City University) – Class, Place and History in the Imaginative Landscapes of Peaky Blinders.- 13. Helen Piper (University of Bristol) - Happy Valley: Compassion, evil and exploitation in an ordinary ‘trouble town’.- Part IV: Taste and Class - 14. Phil Wickham (University of Exeter) - 21st Century British Sitcom and “the Hidden Injuries of Class”.- 15. Chris Pallant and James Newton (Canterbury Christchurch University) - Animating Class in Contemporary British Television.- 16. Antony Mullen (Durham University) - Public Property: Celebrity and the Politics of New Labour in Footballers’ Wives.- 17. Sue Vice (The University of Sheffield) - Grandma’s House and the Charms of the Petit-Bourgeoisie.
Erscheinungsdatum | 15.07.2017 |
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Zusatzinfo | 6 Illustrations, color; XVII, 271 p. 6 illus. in color. |
Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
Sozialwissenschaften | |
Schlagworte | British • Class • Contemporary • Drama • English • Television |
ISBN-10 | 1-137-55505-X / 113755505X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-137-55505-2 / 9781137555052 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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