Conflicting masculinities : men in television period drama / edited by Katherine Byrne, James Leggott and Julie Anne Taddeo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Byrne, Katherine, 1978- editor.

Leggott, James, editor.

Taddeo, Julie Anne, editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

Library of gender and popular culture ; 22.

Library of gender and popular culture ; 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History on television.

Masculinity on television.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Other Title:

Men in television period drama

Place of Publication:

London, England : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2018.

Summary:

"Never before has period drama offered viewers such an assortment of complex male characters, from transported felons and syphilitic detectives to shell shocked soldiers and gangland criminals. Neo-Victorian Gothic fictions like Penny Dreadful represent masculinity at its darkest, Poldark and Outlander have refashioned the romantic hero and anti-heritage series like Peaky Blinders portray masculinity in crisis, at moments when the patriarchy was being bombarded by forces like World War I, the rise of first wave feminism and the breakdown of Empire. Scholars of film, media, literature and history explore the very different types of maleness offered by contemporary television and show how the intersection of class, race, history and masculinity in period dramas has come to hold such broad appeal to twenty-first-century audiences."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

pt. 1. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Masculine Economies of Banished / James Ward

'I will not fight for my country ... for my ship ... my King ... or Captain': Redefining Imperial Masculinities in To the Ends of the Earth / Mark Fryers

Television Costume Drama and the Eroticised, Regionalised Body: Poldark and Outlander / Gemma Goodman and Rachel Moseley

Power and Passion: Seventeenth-Century Masculinities Dramatised on the BBC in the Twenty-First Century / Sarah Belts

pt. 2. Visions of the Nineteenth Century. A Post-Feminist Hero: Sandy Welch's North and South / Sarah E. Fanning

'Because my daddy would protect them': Ripper Street's Edmund Reid and the Competing Demands of Home and Public Lives / Jessica Saxon

'Pleasure and pain, again and again' - Between Monstrosity and Inner Turmoil: The Representation of Masculinity in Penny Dreadful / Caroline Langhorst

Pathological Masculinities: Syphilis and the Medical Profession in The Frankenstein Chronicles / Katherine Byrne

pt. 3. Masculinities from World War I to the Cold War. 'The war is done. Shut the door on it!': The Great War, Masculinity and Trauma in British Period Television / Julie Anne Taddeo

A Minority of Men: The Conscientious Objector in Period Drama / Lucy Brown

Cads, Cowards and Cowmen: Masculinity in Crisis in World War II Television Drama / Stella Hockenhull

'Have you seen Walliams' Bottom?: Detecting the 'Ordinary' Man in Partners in Crime / Louise FitzGerald

'No Need to Matronise Me!': The Crown, the Male Consort and Conflicted Masculinity / James Leggott.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-295) and index.

ISBN:

9781350985803

1350985805

9781838608163

1838608168

9781838608170

1838608176

OCLC:

1139315234