Importing Asta Nielsen: the international film star in the making 1910–1914
Importing Asta Nielsen: the international film star in the making 1910–1914
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引进阿斯塔·尼尔森(Asta Nielsen):1910-1914 年正在崛起的国际电影明星
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10.1080/01439685.2015.1030895
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2015
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Nora Gortcheva
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on the many’ (64), likening the evolution of drama through technology to similar innovations in cheap housing. This seems to confirm that modern British television is now a consumer marketplace. Likewise, producer Cameron Roach describes the long process of consultation involved in relocating Waterloo Road from its original location to an entirely new one (as part of the BBC charter’s 2008 commitment to sourcing 50% of production outside of London), suggesting that ‘never has the interface between producer and viewer been so close’ (189). Similarly, academic Victoria Byard also suggests that fandom is shaping drama production through the elevation of fans to producers, as in the case of Russell T. Davies and the Doctor Who universe. Billy Smart and Sarah Cardwell both suggest that the impact of technology can subtly affect the hermeneutic qualities of television drama, both in positive and deleterious capacities, in their respective analysis of the impact of new techniques in Coronation Street and the different iterations of Jane Austen’s Persuasion (1971, 1995 and 2007). James Chapman’s entry successfully deconstructs the international phenomenon of Downton Abbey, within the canon of ‘quality’ British television heritage drama, but also within the world of transnational co-production. The success of Downton was not an accident Chapman argues, but a carefully planned strategy, which balanced elements of successful British costume drama with the ‘overdramatic excess’ associated with soap narratives (138). If there were a slight criticism of the collection, it would perhaps be the occasional tendency to make assumptions about what audiences responded to without providing any evidentiary basis. This in itself poses an interesting question as it might suggest that the odd bedfellows of textual analysis and fan studies might be profitably reconciled in the future. Overall though, golden age or not, this collection remains valuable reading for anyone interested in the academic and commercial analysis of television drama, with valuable new perspectives offered by the newly commissioned chapters.