Contemporary British Television Drama

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by James Chapman

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > Great Britain

Keywords

Great Britain, television, drama, TV Series

Publishing date

2020

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Collection

International Library of the Moving Image

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 200 pages
6 ¼ x 9 inches (16 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-78076-523-5

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Book Presentation:
The early twenty-first century has seen the emergence of a new style of television drama in Britain that adopts the professional practices and production values of high-end American television while remaining emphatically 'British' in content and outlook. This book analyses eight of these dramas - Spooks, Foyle's War, Hustle, Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes, Downton Abbey, Sherlock and Broadchurch - which have all proved popular with audiences and in their different ways represent the thematic and formal paradigms of post-millennial drama.

James Chapman locates new British drama in its institutional and economic contexts, considers their critical and popular reception, and analyses their social politics in relation to their representations of class, gender and nationhood. He demonstrates how contemporary drama has mobilised both new and residual elements in re-configuring genres such as the spy series, cop show and costume drama for the cultural tastes of modern audiences. And it concludes that television drama has played an integral role in both the economic and the cultural export of 'Britishness'.

About the Author:
James Chapman is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Leicester, UK.

See the publisher website: Bloomsbury Academic