Article:
Beasts from the East: Fantasies of Eastern Europeanness in Brexit-era BBC Drama

dc.creatorHavas, Júlia
dc.creatorMártonfi, Anna
dc.creatorGergely, Gábor
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-06T14:37:41Z
dc.date.available2022-10-06T14:37:41Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis article interrogates the figure of the Eastern European itinerant in contemporary prestige BBC drama to highlight the figure’s role in mobilising ideas of nationhood and foreignness in Brexit-era Britain. Our critical analyses of Dracula (BBC1, 2020), Killing Eve (BBC America, 2018-), and Call the Midwife (BBC1, 2012-) show that programming that putatively celebrates British multiculturalism and diversity configures the Eastern European foreigner as a threat to idea(l)s of Britishness, by deploying this figure in strikingly similar imaginaries of contagion, deviance, and savagery. Such treatment embeds these portrayals in discourses of white nationalism that seek to manage national belonging by articulating the limits and rules of the national community as implicitly racialized terms of culture and space.en
dc.identifier.doi10.18146/view.265
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18967
dc.identifier.urihttps://viewjournal.eu/articles/10.18146/view.265/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20127
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNetherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
dc.publisher.placeHilversum
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0969
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVIEW. Journal of European Television History and Culture
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectBBC dramaen
dc.subjectEastern Europeen
dc.subjectgenderen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.titleBeasts from the East: Fantasies of Eastern Europeanness in Brexit-era BBC Dramaen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2022-10-06T16:51:55
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttp://doi.org/10.18146/view.265
local.source.epage63
local.source.issue20
local.source.issueTitleRace and European TV Histories
local.source.spage48
local.source.volume10

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