Black bodies: racial representation and performance in Georgian-period drama by Khan, Y

“… <p>This thesis focuses on the shifting popular cultural representations of the black body in Georgian-period drama. It enquires into the form and function of the black body in a variety of theatrical racial representations (noble savage, grateful slave, comic servant, vengeful Moor, rebel slave, racial type). …”

Period Drama Men e altri oggetti del desiderio. Fanvidding 2.0 by Donata Meneghelli

“…Dopo una ricognizione che mette in luce il carattere strutturalmente seriale della pratica del fanvidding, ricostruendone la genesi e mostrandone gli sviluppi più recenti, in parallelo alle trasformazioni che negli ultimi anni hanno investito tanto la fisionomia del fandom quanto le tecnologie digitali, il saggio prende come corpus di riferimento i video prodotti nell’ambito delle comunità o da utenti/produttori che gravitano intorno al period drama. A partire da una discussione di alcune delle classificazioni e tipologie correnti (fake/fan trailer, redub, supercut…), e basandosi in parte sulle categorie proposte da Gérard Genette in Palimpsestes, vengono proposti tre criteri – relazione con la fonte, regime, logica – attraverso i quali analizzare i video prodotti dai fan. …”
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La reina del (melo)drama. La representación cinematográfica de Victoria del Reino Unido by Teresa Sorolla-Romero

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<i>Little Dorrit</i>’s Fourth Volume. Twenty-first Century Remediation of a Victorian Classic by Simonetta Falchi

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Back in the Days: dal Nostalgia Film alla Nostalgic Television Series = Back in the Days: from Nostalgia Film to Nostalgic Television Series by Luca Bandirali

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Hommage artistique ou tentative pionnière de révision historique ? La Guerre d’Indépendance espagnole (1808-1814) au prisme de la série Los Desastres de la Guerra (TV3, 1983)... by Jean-Marc Lafon

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Strategies and Strategists in Chinese Historical TV Series / Советы и советники в китайских исторических телесериалах by SARAKAEVA ASIA A. / САРАКАЕВА А.А.

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When German Series Go Global by Krauß, Florian

“…At its centre is a case study of the 1980s period drama Deutschland (2015-2020), based on interviews with key executives and creatives. …”
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«Downton Abbey» and the TV-induced Tourism by Lorenzo Bagnoli

“…This paper aims to analyze the tourism phenomenon generated by the television period drama "Downton Abbey" in Highclere Castle and the village of Bampton in Oxfordshire. …”
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ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE IN TEACHING ENGLISH: A Theoretical Perspective by Abd. Ghofur

“…Drama is a powerfull language teaching tool that involves all of the students interactively all of the class period. Drama can also provide the means for connecting students’ emotions and cognition as it enables students to take risk with language and experience the connection between thought and action. …”
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How to apply the multi-strand narrative of American TV shows in a British series: the Downton Abbey’s case by Paolo Braga

“…Inspired by the movie Gosford Park, Neame and Fellowes were aiming to reboot the genre of period drama. The article specifically identifies Downton Abbey’s elements of international success in the unity between its procedural arena and characters web as well as in the ability to focus organically on a general theme and to keep its tone emotionally consistent. …”
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“Disarmed”: Disability, Trauma, and Emasculation in Contemporary Japanese Cinema by Sean O’Reilly

“…But the trend of avoiding the messy reality of war-related disability, and disabled bodies more generally, has ended, as the emphatic success of period drama Love and Honor (2006) can attest. In the new century, many films have tackled this once-taboo topic, winning success at the box office or, like Caterpillar (2010), at film festivals. …”
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“Something as Passionless as Brilliant Administration”: Royal Sex and Sexuality in 1970s British Historical Television Drama by Sarah Betts

“…Taking as its subject a range of period dramas that depicted the British monarchy in the 1970s, this article argues that debates about the “sexing-up” of recent historical dramas are nothing new. …”
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