Edwardians on Screen

From Downton Abbey to Parade's End
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-349-55938-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 173 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 240 g

This book explores television's current fascination with the Edwardian era. By exploring popular period dramas such as Downton Abbey, it examines how the early twentieth century is represented on our screens, and what these shows tell us about class, gender and politics, both past and present.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Byrne, Katherine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio TV-Drama
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Über Autor(innen)

Katherine Byrne is Lecturer in English at the University of Ulster, UK. She has published articles and book chapters on Victorian fiction and medicine, adaptation, and neo-Edwardian television. Her previous book, Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination, was published in 2011.