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.
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.
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
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
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