Community, Seriality, and the State of the Nation: British and Irish Television Series in the 21st Century

Community, Seriality, and the State of the Nation: British and Irish Television Series in the 21st Century
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Since the turn of the 21st century, the television series has rivalled cinema as the paradigmatic filmic medium. Like few other genres, it lends itself to exploring society in its different layers. In the case of Great Britain and Ireland, it functions as a key medium in depicting the state of the nation. Focussing on questions of genre, narrative form, and serialisation, this volume examines the variety of ways in which popular recent British and Irish television series negotiate the concept of community as a key component of the state of the nation.

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Acknowledgements

‘This is England’: Community, the State of the Nation, and Seriality in Contemporary British and Irish Television Series

The Concept of Community

‘Condition of England’ Fiction and the State of the Nation

Serial Narration in Contemporary British and Irish Film

Aim and Structure of the Volume

Bibliography

I. Family, Morality, and Communal Cohesion. Tommy Shelby’s Modern Family Business: The Ethics of Community in Peaky Blinders (2013-)

1. Introduction

2. Revising History: The Setting and Genre of Peaky Blinders

3. “What Family?” Family as Business and Business as Family

4. Peaky Blinders and the Non-Normative Community

5. Conclusion

Bibliography

‘If we are not a community of neighbours, then we are nothing’: Small-Town Moralities, Social Change, and Social Cohesion in Broadchurch (2013-2017)

1. Introduction

2. Community and Morality in Broadchurch

3. Institutions as Representatives of Social and Moral Order

4. The Changing Community and the Conventions of Crime Drama

5. Conclusion

Bibliography

Families in Gangland: Dysfunctional Community in Love/Hate (2010-2014)

1. Introduction

2. Ireland and Television

3. Love/Hate

4. Family

5. The Gangsters

6. Irishness

7. Conclusion

Bibliography

II. Nostalgia and the Search for Community. A Field That Is Forever England: Nostalgic Revisionism in Detectorists (2014-2017)

1. Introduction

2. Humbled by History

3. Waiting for Gold

4. Join the Club

5. Conclusion

Bibliography

‘He’s one of us’: Community, Imperialism, and the Narrative of Progress in Indian Summers (2015-2016)

1. Introduction

2. Focus on Origin and Difference as Signature of a Colonial Past

3. Cross-Cultural Romances and Historical Progress

4. Desirable – Backward – Different: Indian Characters in Indian Summers

5. Conclusion

Bibliography

The Rural Community as National Microcosm: The Great War and the Birth of Modern Britain in The Village (2013-2014)

1. Introduction

2. The Village

3. The Village as Sociological Entity

4. A New Community Based on ‘Organic’ Solidarity and Heteroglossia

5. The Village as Symbolic Community

6. The Village as Anti-heritage Period Drama

7. Challenges to Dominant World War I Narratives

8. Conclusion

Bibliography

III. Crime and Social Decline in Urban Communities. Drugs, Sheep, and Broken Lives: Dysfunctional Families, Violence, and the Subversion of Nostalgia in Happy Valley (2014-)

1. Introduction

2. Rural Landscapes, Nostalgia, and Industrial Heritage

3. Dysfunctional Families, Lost Fathers, and Patriarchal Violence

4. Stereotypes, Individual Agency, and the Subversion of Institutions

5. Conclusion

Bibliography

Marginalised Tower Blocks: Crime and Community on the Council Estate in Top Boy (2011-2013)

1. Introduction

2. Estates of the Nation: On the British Council Estate and its Communities

3. Top Boy between Social Realism and Commercialised Urban Crime

4. Clashing Visions of the Council Estate: Crime and Community in Top Boy

5. Conclusion

Bibliography

‘With great power comes’… Nothing: Superheroes, Teenage Delinquents, and Dysfunctional Community Structures in Misfits (2009-2013)

1. Introduction

2. Adding to the Discourse of the Deviant Youth: Harold Overman’s Misfits &Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1962)

3. The Failure of Traditional Centres of Community

4. ‘ASBO Five’-Superheroes and the Demasking of Dysfunctional Community Structures

5. Conclusion

Bibliography

IV. Vice and Virtue in Capitalist Communities ‘You wonderful priest’: Community as the Essence of Christianity in Broken (2017)

1. Introduction

2. Michael Kerrigan’s Trauma

3. Institutions1

4. Money

5. Life-World and System

6. Community Regained

7. Critique

8. Conclusion

Bibliography

Black Holes, Zombie Capitalism, and Communities of Care: Luther (2010-) as a 21st-Century Psychomachia

1. Introduction

2. The Crisis of Community

3. Dead Man Walking

4. Conclusion

Bibliography

Tweet Others How You Wish to be Tweeted: Digital Technology and the Sense of Community in Black Mirror (2011-)

1. Introduction

2. Spectacle, Second Screens, and the Ephemeral Nature of Community in “The National Anthem”

3. The Formation of Community against a Social Deviant in “White Bear”

4. Ratings and Meaningful Encounters in the ‘Pelican Cove Lifestyle Community’ in “Nosedive”

5. Conclusion

Bibliography

Fußnoten. The Concept of Community

‘Condition of England’ Fiction and the State of the Nation

Serial Narration in Contemporary British and Irish Film

1. Introduction

2. Revising History: The Setting and Genre of Peaky Blinders

3. “What Family?” Family as Business and Business as Family

4. Peaky Blinders and the Non-Normative Community

5. Conclusion

1. Introduction

2. Community and Morality in Broadchurch

3. Institutions as Representatives of Social and Moral Order

4. The Changing Community and the Conventions of Crime Drama

1. Introduction

4. Family

1. Introduction

2. Humbled by History

3. Waiting for Gold

4. Join the Club

1. Introduction

2. Focus on Origin and Difference as Signature of a Colonial Past

3. Cross-Cultural Romances and Historical Progress

4. Desirable – Backward – Different: Indian Characters in Indian Summers

1. Introduction

2. The Village

3. The Village as Sociological Entity

6. The Village as Anti-heritage Period Drama

7. Challenges to Dominant World War I Narratives

1. Introduction

2. Rural Landscapes, Nostalgia, and Industrial Heritage

3. Dysfunctional Families, Lost Fathers, and Patriarchal Violence

4. Stereotypes, Individual Agency, and the Subversion of Institutions

1. Introduction

2. Estates of the Nation: On the British Council Estate and its Communities

3. Top Boy between Social Realism and Commercialised Urban Crime

4. Clashing Visions of the Council Estate: Crime and Community in Top Boy

1. Introduction

2. Adding to the Discourse of the Deviant Youth: Harold Overman’s Misfits & Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1962)

3. The Failure of Traditional Centres of Community

4. ‘ASBO Five’-Superheroes and the Demasking of Dysfunctional Community Structures

2. Michael Kerrigan’s Trauma

3. Institutions

4. Money

5. Life-World and System

6. Community Regained

7. Critique

8. Conclusion

1. Introduction

2. The Crisis of Community

3. Dead Man Walking

1. Introduction

2. Spectacle, Second Screens, and the Ephemeral Nature of Community in “The National Anthem”

3. The Formation of Community against a Social Deviant in “White Bear”

4. Ratings and Meaningful Encounters in the ‘Pelican Cove Lifestyle Community’ in “Nosedive”

5. Conclusion

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Community, Seriality, and the State of the Nation: British and Irish Television Series in the 21st Century

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Thomas’ “Gypsy half” comes forth in a number of scenes: a close-up shows him soothing a shying horse by pulling near his face and whispering into his nostrils in episode two of the first series (see fig. 3); in series two, he asks Curly for “black powder” to cure his wounds (E2, 00:06), and in series three, he consults Madame Boswell after the death of his wife (E3, 00:28). Yet, returned from the war, he is irreversibly embedded in and subject to the fundamentally modern way of life of the city. “I’ve been to France”, he answers Esme (S2/E5, 00:17), referring to the battlefields of the Great War. Rather than offering an escape into pre-modern tradition, this ‘Gypsy’ heritage allows an experience of the ‘sacred’ in the here and now of Thomas’ existence as a creation of modernity. He is acutely aware of his disbelief in curses and nonetheless comforted by Madame Boswell’s (coerced) confirmation that a cursed sapphire caused the death of his wife. His chosen method of solving conflicts, the toss of a coin, is a “sacred” (S4/E3, 00:27) act not because it is based on tradition, but because it creates a ‘sacred’ experience in the sense of the Collège de Sociologie, one which “transcends to social order”.

Fig. 4a (top left): Thomas prompted to “[g]et out of the grave [dug for him], tinker!” (S2/E6, 00:54).

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