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Swashbucklers : the costume adventure series / James Chapman.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Manchester Film StudiesPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780719098932
  • 0719098939
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Swashbucklers.DDC classification:
  • 791.456 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1992.8.A317 C53 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Exporting Englishness -- Fantasy factories -- Revisionist revivals -- Rebels with a cause -- Heritage heroes -- Millennial mavericks -- Conclusion.
Summary: "The book explores the history of swashbuckling television from its origins in the 1950s to the present day. It maps the major production cycles of the Anglophone swashbuckler both in Britain and in the United States and places the genre in its historical, cultural and institutional contexts. It shows how the success of The Adventures of Robin Hood in the 1950s established a template for a genre that has been one of the most successful of British television exports, and considers how America responded to this 'British invasion' with its own swashbuckling heroes such as Zorro."--Back cover.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 28, 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Exporting Englishness -- Fantasy factories -- Revisionist revivals -- Rebels with a cause -- Heritage heroes -- Millennial mavericks -- Conclusion.

"The book explores the history of swashbuckling television from its origins in the 1950s to the present day. It maps the major production cycles of the Anglophone swashbuckler both in Britain and in the United States and places the genre in its historical, cultural and institutional contexts. It shows how the success of The Adventures of Robin Hood in the 1950s established a template for a genre that has been one of the most successful of British television exports, and considers how America responded to this 'British invasion' with its own swashbuckling heroes such as Zorro."--Back cover.

In English.

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