230351 The Politics of Nostalgia: Representations of the British Upper Classes (S) (WiSe 2016/2017)

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"Downton is just the latest in a long line of conservative cultural phenomena that get lapped up internationally and end up representing Brand Britain, whether we like it or not. From Merchant Ivory and Jeeves and Wooster to Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill via royal baby fever, our best-known cultural exports are painfully reinforcing “olde worlde” class stereotypes.
And let’s not kid ourselves that what we’re broadcasting to the world here is great drama. What we’re actually exporting is nostalgia, an unhealthy obsession with class, and a peculiarly dusty form of conservatism. It turns out that people can’t get enough of these things." - Discuss.

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Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (1945) + ITV series (1982)
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day (1989) + film (1993)
Jeeves and Wooster (stories by P. G. Wodehouse + ITV 1990-93)
Nancy Mitford, Love in a Cold Climate (1949) + BBC1 series (2001)
Gosford Park (dir. Robert Altman, 2001)
Downton Abbey (ITV 2010ff)
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Anglistik: British and American Studies / Master of Education (Enrollment until SoSe 2014) BaAngPM3; BaAngPM4    
Anglistik: British and American Studies (GHR) / Master of Education (Enrollment until SoSe 2014) BaAngPM3; BaAngPM4    
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