Conflicting Masculinities - Men in Television Period Drama (Hardcover)

Never before has period drama offered viewers such an assortment of complex male characters, from transported felons and syphilitic detectives to shell shocked soldiers and gangland criminals. Neo-Victorian Gothic fictions like Penny Dreadful represent masculinity at its darkest, Poldark and Outlander have refashioned the romantic hero and anti-heritage series like Peaky Blinders portray masculinity in crisis, at moments when the patriarchy was being bombarded by forces like World War I, the rise of first wave feminism and the breakdown of Empire. Scholars of film, media, literature and history explore the very different types of maleness offered by contemporary television and show how the intersection of class, race, history and masculinity in period dramas has come to hold such broad appeal to twenty-first-century audiences.

General

Imprint:	I.B. Tauris
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Library of Gender and Popular Culture
Release date:	June 2018
Editors:	Katherine Byrne • Julie Anne Taddeo • James Leggott
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Sewn
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-1-78831-335-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Television Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Men's studies
LSN:	1-78831-335-6
Barcode:	9781788313353

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