| Period Drama Contributor(s): Woods, Faye (Author) |
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ISBN: 1474462820 ISBN-13: 9781474462822 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $26.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2022 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Television - Direction & Production - Performing Arts | Television - History & Criticism - Performing Arts | Television - Reference |
| Dewey: 791.456 |
| LCCN: 2023553670 |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.43" W x 8.43" (0.35 lbs) 200 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Period drama is a genre of prestige and pleasure, spectacle and intimacy. It is a genre embedded in national pasts yet also talks to the present. Invested in the play of gender and the structures of society, it delights in the intricacies and textures of clothing and the bodies it encloses, the glance and the gaze. It is often viewed as a genre of escape, of nostalgia and traditionalism. Yet it has the potential to explore under-represented histories, illustrating how the structures of history caused wounds that resonate through to our present. This book maps out the dominant debates surrounding period drama through the twin frameworks of prestige and pleasure, charting its investments and preoccupations, exploring how it frames the past through the perspective of the present. |
