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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
values are revealed and debated. By revealing the tensions in
contemporary notions of heroes and heroisms, television drama
employs the heroic as a lens through which to scrutinise
contemporary British society and its responses to crisis and
change. Looking back on the development of heroic representations
in British television drama over the last twenty years, this
book’s analyses show how heroisation in television drama reacts
to, and reveals shifts in, British structures of feeling in a time
marked by insecurity. The book is ideal for readers interested in
British cultural studies, studies of the heroic and popular
culture.
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
values are revealed and debated. By revealing the tensions in
contemporary notions of heroes and heroisms, television drama
employs the heroic as a lens through which to scrutinise
contemporary British society and its responses to crisis and
change. Looking back on the development of heroic representations
in British television drama over the last twenty years, this book's
analyses show how heroisation in television drama reacts to, and
reveals shifts in, British structures of feeling in a time marked
by insecurity. The book is ideal for readers interested in British
cultural studies, studies of the heroic and popular culture.
Heroes and heroic discourse have gained new visibility in the
twenty-first century. This is noted in recent research on the
heroic, but it has been largely ignored that heroism is
increasingly a global phenomenon both in terms of production and
consumption. This edited collection aims to bridge this research
void and brings together case studies by scholars from different
parts of the world and diverse fields. They explore how
transnational and transcultural processes of translation and
adaptation shape notions of the heroic in non-Western and Western
cultures alike. The book provides fresh perspectives on heroism
studies and offers a new angle for global and postcolonial studies.
Surveillance has become a part of everyday life: we are surrounded
by surveillance technologies in news media, when we go down the
street, in the movies, and even carry them in our own pockets in
the form of smartphones. How are we constructing imaginaries of our
realities and of ourselves as living in structures of control? What
affects, emotions and feelings do we develop in societies of
control, and how do we narrate them? Media, Surveillance and Affect
represents a big step in revealing the depth of the entanglement of
surveillance technology not only with our everyday lives, but with
our imaginaries and affective experiences. Combining insights from
affect studies with narratological and visual cultural studies
approaches, the case studies in this book focus on how surveillance
cameras and surveillance camera images have been used to narrate
affective stories of Great Britain. Cases discussed include the
memory work surrounding the murder of James Bulger in 1993 and of
Lee Rigby in 2011, but also novels and artworks. With a
multidisciplinary approach Media, Surveillance and Affect will
appeal to students, scholars and specialists interested in fields
such as media and cultural studies, literary studies, cultural
sociology and surveillance studies.
Heroes and heroic discourse have gained new visibility in the
twenty-first century. This is noted in recent research on the
heroic, but it has been largely ignored that heroism is
increasingly a global phenomenon both in terms of production and
consumption. This edited collection aims to bridge this research
void and brings together case studies by scholars from different
parts of the world and diverse fields. They explore how
transnational and transcultural processes of translation and
adaptation shape notions of the heroic in non-Western and Western
cultures alike. The book provides fresh perspectives on heroism
studies and offers a new angle for global and postcolonial studies.
Surveillance has become a part of everyday life: we are surrounded
by surveillance technologies in news media, when we go down the
street, in the movies, and even carry them in our own pockets in
the form of smartphones. How are we constructing imaginaries of our
realities and of ourselves as living in structures of control? What
affects, emotions and feelings do we develop in societies of
control, and how do we narrate them? Media, Surveillance and Affect
represents a big step in revealing the depth of the entanglement of
surveillance technology not only with our everyday lives, but with
our imaginaries and affective experiences. Combining insights from
affect studies with narratological and visual cultural studies
approaches, the case studies in this book focus on how surveillance
cameras and surveillance camera images have been used to narrate
affective stories of Great Britain. Cases discussed include the
memory work surrounding the murder of James Bulger in 1993 and of
Lee Rigby in 2011, but also novels and artworks. With a
multidisciplinary approach Media, Surveillance and Affect will
appeal to students, scholars and specialists interested in fields
such as media and cultural studies, literary studies, cultural
sociology and surveillance studies.
Stability is at the core of every discussion of order,
organization or institutionalization. From an inside perspective,
the stability of each order-constituting element is assumed. In
contrast, in critical discourses instability (e.g. through
ambiguity, or non-control) is located at the outside of the social
order as its negative. By treating this argumentative symmetrical
structure as idioms of stability and de-stabilization, the articles
try to rethink order: How can we describe structures from a
perspective in which instability, non-control and irrationality are
not contrary to ordering systems, but contribute to their
stability? How might the notions of identity, knowledge and
institution in social and cultural studies be contested by this
change of perspective?
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