Victorians on Screen [electronic resource] : The Nineteenth Century on British Television, 1994-2005 /
Kleinecke-Bates, Iris.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Motion pictures and television.
Civilization-History.
Great Britain-History.
Communication.
Sociology.
Motion pictures-History.
Screen Studies.
Cultural History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Media Research.
Film History.
Media Studies.