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Upstairs and downstairs : British costume drama television from The Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey
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Upstairs and downstairs : British costume drama television from The Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey

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Introduction
Approaches to the Costume Drama. Pageantry and populism, democratization and dissent: the forgotten 1970s / Claire Monk
History's Drama: Narrative Space in "Golden Age" British Television Drama / Tom Bragg
"It's not clever, it's not funny, and it's not period!": Costume Comedy and British Television / James Leggott
"It is but a glimpse of the world of fashion": British Costume Drama, Dickens, and Serialization / Marc Napolitano
Neverending Stories?: The Paradise and the Period Drama Series / Benjamin Poore
Epistolarity and Masculinity in Andrew Davies's Trollope Adaptations / Ellen Moody
"What are we going to do with Uncle Arthur?": Music in the British Serialized Period Drama / Scott Strovas and Karen Beth Strovas
The Costume Drama, History, and Heritage. British Historical Drama and the Middle Ages / Andrew B.R. Elliott
Desacralizing the Icon: Elizabeth I and Television / Sabrina Alcorn Baron
"It's not the navy" We don't stand back to stand upwards": The Onedin Line and the Changing Waters of British Maritime Identity / Mark Fryers
Good-Bye to All That: Piece of Cake, Danger UXB, and the Second World War / A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Upstairs, Downstairs (2010-2012) and Narratives of Domestic and Foreign Appeasement / Giselle Bastin
Downton Abbey and heritage / Katherine Byrne
Experimentation and Post-Heritage in Contemporary TV Drama: Parade's End / Stella Hockenhull
The Costume Drama, Sexual Politics, and Fandom. "Why don't you take her?": Rape in the Poldark Narrative / Julie Anne Taddeo
The Imaginative Power of Downton Abbey Fanfiction / Andrea Schmidt
This Wonderful Commercial Machine: Gender, Class, and the Pleasures and Spectacle of Shopping in The Paradise and Mr. Selfridge / Andrea Wright
Taking a Pregnant Pause: Interrogating the Feminist Potential of Call the
Midwife / Louise FitzGerald
Queer Lives: Representation and Reinterpretation in Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey / Lucy Brown
Troubled by Violence: Transnational Complexity and the Critique of Masculinity in Ripper Street / Elke Weissmann.

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Upstairs and downstairs : British costume drama television from The Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey. ISBN 9781442244825. Published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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