The early twenty-first century has seen the emergence of a new style of television drama in Britain that adopts the professional practices and production values of high-end American television while remaining emphatically ''British'' in content and outlook. This book analyses eight of these dramas - <i>Spooks, Foyle''s War, Hustle, Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes, Downton Abbey, Sherlock and Broadchurch</i> - which have all proved popular with audiences and in their different ways represent the thematic and formal paradigms of post-millennial drama.James Chapman locates new British drama in its institutional and economic contexts, considers their critical and popular reception, and analyses their social politics in relation to their representations of class, gender and nationhood. He demonstrates how contemporary drama has mobilised both new and residual elements in re-configuring genres such as the spy series, cop show and costume drama for the cultural tastes of modern audiences. And it
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This guide offers a comprehensive account of British theatre from the 1960s to the present day. Placing critical commentary at the heart of its analysis, it explores how theatre critics and scholars have sought to understand and write about modern theatre,...
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This series of three volumes provides a groundbreaking study of the work of many of the most innovative and important British theatre companies from 1965 to the present. Each volume provides a survey of the political and cultural context; an extensive...
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This fully revised and updated new edition, with contributions from over 550 internationally-recognised authors, provides extensive coverage of the work-up, surgical and medical treatment and rehabilitation of musculoskeletal disorders.
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