Barbara Korte, Nicole Falkenhayner

Heroes in Contemporary British Culture (eBook, ePUB)

Television Drama and Reflections of a Nation in Change

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Altersempfehlung: ab 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000384086
• Artikelnr.: 61361414

Autorenporträt

Barbara Korte is Professor of English Literature at the University of Freiburg. She has co-edited the volumes Heroism as a Global Phenomenon in Popular Culture (2019) and Heroes and Heroisms in British Fiction since 1800: Case Studies (2017).

Nicole Falkenhayner is Senior Lecturer of British Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Freiburg and author of Media, Surveillance and Affect: Narrating Feeling-States (2019) and Making the British Muslim: Representations of the Rushdie Affair and Figures of the War-on-Terror Decade (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Heroes, television drama and a nation in change. Concepts and
contexts 1
1 The hero's journey and the state of the nation 21
2 British soldier heroism in the War on Terror era 44
3 The heroic TV detective in the twenty-first century: Transforming
archetypes 64
4 Secret service TV drama: Dubious ethics, dubious heroism 90
5 Merlin versus Misfits: Heroic British youth telefantasy 110
Summary and Outlook 135