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Barbara Korte

Heroes in Contemporary British Culture

Television Drama and Reflections of a Nation in Change

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This book explores how British culture is negotiating heroes and heroisms in the twenty-first century. It posits a nexus between the heroic and the state of the nation and explores this idea through British television drama. Drawing on case studies including programmes such as The Last Kingdom, Spooks, Luther and Merlin, the book explores the aesthetic strategies of heroisation in television drama and contextualises the programmes within British public discourses at the time of their production, original broadcasting and first reception. British television drama is a cultural forum in which contemporary Britain's problems, wishes and cultural… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Falkenhayner, Nicole
  • ISBN: 978-1-00-038408-6
  • EAN: 9781000384086
  • Produktnummer: 35391825
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 184 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Abbildungen: 5 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 5 schwarz-weiße Fotos

Über den Autor


Barbara Korte is Professor of English Literature at the University of Freiburg. She has co-edited the volumes Heroism as a Global Phenomenon in Popular Culture (2019) and Heroes and Heroisms in British Fiction since 1800: Case Studies (2017).Nicole Falkenhayner is Senior Lecturer of British Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Freiburg and author of Media, Surveillance and Affect: Narrating Feeling-States (2019) and Making the British Muslim: Representations of the Rushdie Affair and Figures of the War-on-Terror Decade (2014).

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