Doing History in the Age of Downton Abbey: Journal of British Cinema and Television, Volume 16, Issue 1

ISBN-13: 9781474450799 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 128 str.

Christine Geraghty;Julie Anne Taddeo

Opis

Addresses how academic historians engage with Downton Abbey and similar programmes on a personal, intellectual, and professional basis. As representations of history, period dramas perform serious work, and can be used to discuss both historical and contemporary issues (voting rights, war and trauma, reproductive rights).

Spis treści

Introduction: Doing History in the Age of Downton Abbey
Julie Anne Taddeo

A (Very) Open Elite: Downton Abbey, Historical Fiction and America’s Romance with the British Aristocracy
Nicoletta F. Gullace

Undoing Difference: Academic Historians and the Downton Abbey Audience
Charles Upchurch

Let’s Talk about Sex: Period Drama Histories for the Twenty-first Century
Julie Anne Taddeo

Consuming Downton Abbey: The Commodification of Heritage and Nostalgia
Dina M. Copelman

Matthew’s Legs and Thomas’s Hand: Watching Downton Abbey as a First World War Historian
Jessica Meyer

‘The new Downton Abbey’?: Poldark and the Presentation and Perception of an Eighteenth-Century Past
Hannah Greig