Social Class and Television Drama in Contemporary Britain

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 This Is England: Authorship, Emotion and Class Telly

Chapter 3 Jimmy McGovern’s The Street and the Politics of Everyday Life

Chapter 4 High-flyers, Hooligans and Helpmates: Images of Social Class in the Television Dramas of Stephen Poliakoff

Chapter 5 Through Class Darkly: Class in the British TV Noir

Chapter 6 Military Class: Hearts and Minds on the Domestic Screen

Chapter 7 ‘Honest Endeavour Together!’: Social Mobility, Entrepreneurialism and Class in Mr Selfridge

Chapter 8 Social Class and Television Audiences in the 1990s

Chapter 9 Searching for Hugh Gaitskell in a Neoliberal Landscape – Masculinities and Class Mobility in Goodnight Sweetheart

Chapter 10 From Newcastle to Nashville: the Northern Soul of Jimmy Nail

Chapter 11 ‘A Woman Like That Is Not A Woman, Quite. I Have Been Her Kind’: Maxine Peake and the Gothic Excess of Northern Femininity

Chapter 12 Class, Place and History in the Imaginative Landscapes of Peaky Blinders

Chapter 13 Happy Valley: Compassion, Evil and Exploitation in an Ordinary ‘Trouble Town’

Chapter 14 Twenty-First Century British Sitcom and ‘the Hidden Injuries of Class’

Chapter 15 Animating Class in Contemporary British Television

Chapter 16 Public Property: Celebrity and the Politics of New Labour in Footballers’ Wives

Chapter 17 Grandma’s House and the Charms of the Petit Bourgeoisie