Conflicting Masculinities - Men in Television Period Drama

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.>

About the author

Katherine Byrne is a lecturer in English at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. She teaches nineteenth and twentieth century literature and women's writing.Julie Anne Taddeo teaches British history at University of Maryland, College Park, USA.James Leggott is Associate Professor of film at Northumbria University, UK. He is author of The North East of England on Film and Television (2021) and In Fading Light: The Films of the Amber Collective (2020). He is editor of Conflicting Masculinities: Men in Television Period Drama (I. B. Tauris, 2018).

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Byrne, Jam Leggott, Julie Anne Taddeo
• Assisted by: Katherine Byrne (Editor), Katherine (Ulster University Byrne (Editor), Byrne Katherine (Editor), James Leggott (Editor), James (Northumbria University Leggott (Editor), Leggott James (Editor), Angela Smith (Editor), Julie Anne Taddeo (Editor), Julie Anne (University of Maryland Taddeo (Editor), Taddeo Julie Anne (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781350144354
• ISBN: 978-1-350-14435-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture; Library of Gender and Popular
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Popular Culture, Television, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Social & cultural history, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism, 21st Century, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / Genres / Drama, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Social and cultural history, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men