Swashbucklers The Costume Adventure Series 1st Edition by James Chapman 071908881X 9780719088810

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ISBN 10: 071908881X 

ISBN 13: 9780719088810

Author: James Chapman

Swashbucklers is the first study of one of the most popular and enduring genres in television history – the costume adventure series. It maps the history of swashbuckling television from its origins in the 1950s to the present. It places the various series in their historical and institutional contexts and also analyses how the form and style of the genre has changed over time. And it includes case studies of major swashbuckling series including The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Buccaneers, Ivanhoe, William Tell, Zorro, Arthur of the Britons, Dick Turpin, Robin of Sherwood, Sharpe, Hornblower, The Count of Monte Cristo and the recent BBC co-production of The Three Musketeers.

Table of contents:

1 Exporting Englishness

The political economy of The Adventures of Robin Hood

Sapphire Films and the making of The Adventures of Robin Hood

The reception of The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Adventures of Robin Hood and the Robin Hood myth

The politics of The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Adventures of Robin Hood and the Cold War

Coda: Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960)

Notes

2 Fantasy factories

The Sapphire standard: The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1956), The Buccaneers (1956), Sword of Freedom (1957)

Other early Swashbucklers: The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1955), The Count of Monte Cristo (1955), Ivanhoe (1957)

Swashbuckling Westerns: The Last of the Mohicans (1957) and Zorro (1957–58)

ITP goes it alone: William Tell (1958) and Sir Francis Drake (1961)

Coda: The BBC and Hornblower (1963)

Notes

3 Revisionist revivals

The once and future king: Arthur of the Britons (1972)

Revisionist Robin: The Legend of Robin Hood (1975)

Stevenson redux: The Black Arrow (1972–74), Kidnapped (1979), The Master of Ballantrae (1984)

Notes

4 Rebels with a cause

The myth of the English highwayman: Dick Turpin (1979–81)

The outlaw as hero: Smuggler (1981) and Adventurer (1987)

Radical Robin: Robin of Sherwood (1984–86)

Notes

5 Heritage heroes

Primetime Dumas: The Count of Monte-Cristo (1976) and The Man in the Iron Mask (1977)

Romantic heroes: Ivanhoe (1982) and The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982)

Boy’s own epics: Sharpe (1993–97) and Hornblower (1998–2003)

French connections: The Count of Monte Cristo (1998)

Notes

6 Millennial mavericks

Cable crusaders: Zorro (1990–92), The New Adventures of Robin Hood (1997–98), Queen of Swords (2000)

Revisionist remakes: Ivanhoe (1997) and The Scarlet Pimpernel (1999–2000)

Return of the hoodie: Robin Hood (2006–09)

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