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Heroes in Contemporary British Culture
- Television Drama and Reflections of a Nation in Change
Engelsk Paperback
Heroes in Contemporary British Culture
- Television Drama and Reflections of a Nation in Change
Engelsk Paperback

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This book explores how British culture is negotiating heroes and heroisms in the twenty-first century. It posits a nexus between the heroic and the state of the nation and explores this idea through British television drama.

Drawing on case studies including programmes such as The Last Kingdom, Spooks, Luther and Merlin, the book explores the aesthetic strategies of heroisation in television drama and contextualises the programmes within British public discourses at the time of their production, original broadcasting and first reception. British television drama is a cultural forum in which contemporary Britain’s problems, wishes and cultural values are revealed and debated. By revealing the tensions in contemporary notions of heroes and heroisms, television drama employs the heroic as a lens through which to scrutinise contemporary British society and its responses to crisis and change. Looking back on the development of heroic representations in British television drama over the last twenty years, this book’s analyses show how heroisation in television drama reacts to, and reveals shifts in, British structures of feeling in a time marked by insecurity.

The book is ideal for readers interested in British cultural studies, studies of the heroic and popular culture.

Introduction of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution (CC-BY-)] 4.0 license.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
150
ISBN-13:
9780367653675
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0367653672
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Udg. Dato:
25 sep 2023
Længde:
12mm
Bredde:
234mm
Højde:
156mm
Forlag:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oplagsdato:
25 sep 2023
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