Period Drama
Period Drama Period drama is a genre of prestige and pleasure, spectacle and intimacy. Invested in the play of gender and the structures of society, it delights in the intricacies and textures of…
Specifikacia Period Drama
Period Drama
Period drama is a genre of prestige and pleasure, spectacle and intimacy. Invested in the play of gender and the structures of society, it delights in the intricacies and textures of clothing and the bodies it encloses, the glance and the gaze. It is a genre embedded in national pasts yet also talks to the present.
Yet it has the potential to explore under-represented histories, illustrating how the structures of history caused wounds that resonate through to our present. It is often viewed as a genre of escape, of nostalgia and traditionalism. This book maps out the dominant debates surrounding period drama through the twin frameworks of prestige and pleasure, charting its investments and preoccupations, exploring how it frames the past through the perspective of the