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In this book, Faye Woods explores the raucous, cheeky, intimate voice of British youth television. This is the first study of a complete television system targeting teens and twenty somethings, chronicling a period of significant industrial change in the early 21st century. British Youth Television offers a snapshot of the complexities of contemporary television from a British standpoint — youth-focused programming that blossomed in the commercial expansion of the digital era, yet indelibly shaped by public service broadcasting, and now finding its feet on proliferating platforms. Considering BBC Three, My Mad Fat Diary, The Inbetweeners, Our War and Made in Chelsea, amongst others; Woods identifies a television that is defiantly British, yet also has a complex transatlantic relationship with US teen TV. This book creates a space for British voices in an academic and cultural landscape dominated by the American teenager.

Culture --- Ethnology --- Youth --- Motion pictures and television. --- Film genres. --- Cultural and Media Studies. --- British Culture. --- Film and Television Studies. --- Youth Culture. --- Genre. --- Study and teaching. --- Europe. --- Social life and customs. --- Teen television programs --- Television and youth --- Youth on television. --- Youth in television --- Youth and television --- Teen drama (Television programs) --- Teenage television programs --- Television programs for youth --- Youth television programs --- Television --- Television programs --- Ethnology—Europe. --- Youth—Social life and customs. --- Screen Studies. --- Genre films --- Genres, Film --- Motion picture genres --- Motion pictures --- Moving-pictures and television --- Television and motion pictures --- Plots, themes, etc. --- Great Britain. --- Anglia --- Angliyah --- Briṭanyah --- England and Wales --- Förenade kungariket --- Grã-Bretanha --- Grande-Bretagne --- Grossbritannien --- Igirisu --- Iso-Britannia --- Marea Britanie --- Nagy-Britannia --- Prydain Fawr --- Royaume-Uni --- Saharātchaʻānāčhak --- Storbritannien --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Velikobritanii͡ --- Wielka Brytania --- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta --- Northern Ireland --- Scotland --- Wales

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Maps out the dominant debates surrounding period drama through the twin frameworks of prestige and pleasureResponds to the recent boom in television drama in the UK, US and Europe and explores industrial change across early 21st century televisionAnalysis shaped by considerations pleasure, the body, space and place, alongside established frameworks of heritage, nation, class, gender and costumeIntegrates industrial, aesthetic and ideological analysis to draw out the complexities of the genreExpands the canon beyond the established hits and critical favourites, drawing out the breadth of the fieldPeriod drama is a genre of prestige and pleasure, realism and fantasy, spectacle and intimacy. It is embedded in national pasts but speaks to the present, tracing connections, continuities, and change. It reconstructs and reimagines the spaces and places of the past and considers how lives were shaped by the classed, raced and gendered structures of society. Period drama is invested in the bodily and emotional experience of the past, it delights in the intricacies and textures of clothing, the erotics of the gaze and moments of touch. It is often viewed as a genre of escape, nostalgia and traditionalism. Yet it has the potential to challenge dominant cultural narratives and explore under-represented histories, helping to reshape our understandings of our own histories. This book maps out the dominant debates surrounding television period drama. Through a series of themed programme case studies it charts the genre’s investments and preoccupations, considering its place within television industries and contemporary culture.Case studies:Indian Summers (Channel 4 2015-2016)Beecham House (ITV, 2019)Underground (WGN, 2016-2017)Shoulder to Shoulder (BBC2, 1974)The Mill (Channel 4, 2013-14)North & South (BBC1, 2004)Call the Midwife (BBC1, 2012-)The Marvelous Mrs Maisel (Amazon Prime Video, 2017- )The Deuce (HBO, 2017-19)Peaky Blinders (BBC2/BBC1, 2013-)Gentlemen Jack (BBC1, 2019)Pose (FX, 2018-2021)The Crimson Petal and the White (BBC2, 2011)Outlander (Starz, 2014-)Dickinson (Apple TV+, 2019-)

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