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Victorians on screen : the nineteenth century on british television, 1994-2005 / Iris Kleinecke-Bates

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, [2014]

1 Online-Ressource (x, 233 Seiten)

Englisch

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Neo-Victorian Television:British Television Imagines the Nineteenth Century; 1 Period Representation in Context: The Forsyte Saga on BBC and ITV; The 1967 adaptation of The Forsyte Saga; A response to the BBC classic serial?: the 2002 Granada Forsyte Saga; 2 Victorian Fictions and Victorian Nightmares; Middlemarch: the knowledge of history; The Woman in White: alternative history as dark secret; North and South: subjectivity and memory; The classic novel adaptation, post-heritage

3 Murder Rooms and Servants: Original Drama as MetadaptationMurder Rooms: between reality and myth; Lucy Gannon's Servants: modern Victorians; Murder Rooms and Servants: questioning format and genre; 4 Real Victorians to Victorian Realities: Factual Television Programming and the Nineteenth Century; From The Victorian Kitchen Garden to What the Victorians Did for Us; Uncovering the Real Dickens: testimony of the Victorian age; The 1900 House: living as Victorians; Factual history television and the construction of the Victorian age; Conclusion: Victorian Facts, Victorian Fictions; Notes

BibliographyTelevision Programmes and Films Cited; Index

Description based upon print version of record

978-0-230-36334-2

978-0-230-36334-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 897734728     

978-1-137-31672-1 ( : 84.82 (NL))

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

PN1992.8.H56 K55 2014

791.45/65841081 ; 301     Ähnliche Literatur

Basisklassifikation: 18.05 (Englische Literatur) ; 24.32 (Filmgeschichte) ; 24.38 (Fernsehen; Hörfunk) <Kunst>

*Englisch ; Roman ; Geschichte 1837-1901     Zum Register

*Großbritannien ; Literatur ; Verfilmung ; Fernsehsendung ; Geschichte 1994-2005      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Electronic books ; Victoria, -- Queen of Great Britain, -- 1819-1901 -- On television ; Historical television programs -- Great Britain -- History and criticism ; Television and history -- Great Britain ; English fiction -- Adaptations -- History and criticism ; Great Britain -- On television

Victorians on Screen investigates the representation of the Victorian age on British television from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. Structured around key areas of enquiry specific to British television, it avoids a narrow focus on genre by instead taking a thematic approach and exploring notions of authenticity, realism and identity.

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<p ><span style=""font-style:italic;"" >Victorians on Screen</span> investigates the representation of the Victorian age on British television from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. Structured around key areas of enquiry specific to British television, it avoids a narrow focus on genre by instead taking a thematic approach and exploring notions of authenticity, realism and identity