Heritage and Post-Heritage: Investigating the Style, Form and Genre of Period Drama in 2010s British Television

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Heritage and Post-Heritage: Investigating the Style, Form and Genre of Period Drama in 2010s British Television

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Victoria University of Wellington

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This project analyses six period drama productions in British television of the 2010s, expanding Claire Monk’s term of ‘post-heritage’ into a critical framework. Its case studies establish a cycle of progressive representations of the past in recent television drama, which operate against the assumptions of ‘heritage’ nostalgia forwarded by earlier scholars. The post-heritage framework consists of five guiding elements: interrogation, subversion, subjectivity, self-consciousness and ambiguity...

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Thesis level

Doctoral

Date created

2020

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William Abbiss

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https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Heritage_and_Post-Heritage_Investigating_the_Style_Form_and_...

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Media studies / television / British / heritage / period drama / culture / identity / trauma / genre / School: School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies / Media Studies / The Creative Arts (incl. Graphics and Craft) / Degree Discipline: Media Studies / Degree Level: Doctoral / Degree Name: Doctor of Philosophy

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