“Interview: Downton Abbey historical advisor Alastair Bruce visits the Triangle.” Indy Week Dec 30, 2014. “Upstairs and Downstairs: British Costume Drama Television from The Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey.” Media History 22(2):254-7. “Dialectics of Nostalgia: Downton Abbey and English Identity.” National Identities 17(3):259-69. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.īaena, Rosalía and Christa Byker (2015). Class Inequality in Austerity Britain: Power, Difference and Suffering. These comments and criticisms are relevant to today’s class issues in Britain and elsewhere.Ītkinsons, Will, et al. Some respondents are satiric and forcefully oppose the values and interests of the propertied classes in the series other reviewers in the same vein present analyses of power and class aspects in the series. Non-professional reviews posted on the website International Movie Database include very critical opinions on class struggles and aristocratic privileges. Downton Abbey comes close to presenting a conservative defense of the values and lifestyles of the aristocracy, but this vision of the elite and its values is challenged by some of the series’ (re)viewers. ‘Official’ books on the series, written by Julian Fellowes’s niece and others, will be important references in the article. Downton Abbey belongs to the heritage film genre with its claims to detailed historical accuracy, and is thereby separated from conventional costume drama and period TV series. This article examines the TV series Downton Abbey (2010-15) from both a class and a reception perspective. Heritage films, class, audience response Abstract Department of Archivistics, Library and Information Science, Associate Professor
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