Two types:
- Most common one is the historical costume drama
- And the futuristical costume drama; takes place in the distant future (actors often wore strange,unsual and sometimes hi-tech costumes to predict on what the clothes of th future might be like)
Both have a wide ranging, love & war, birth & death, rich & poor, ... .
The costume drama is a period piece which uses sets and props and elaborate costumes in order to capture the ambience of a particular era
Sets:
Props:
Different genres:
- historical dramas
- romances
- adventure
- swashbucklers
Costume Drama is often intertextually linked to ´classic´ novels or plays and tends to offer a set of pleasure which is very different to the drama that is set in our own world contexts and times.
Examples:
- Battlestar Galactica
- Pride and Prejudice
- Rome
- Sense and Sensebility
- Robin Hood
- The Tudors
- Little Dorrit
Hyperlinks:
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/482184/index.html
http://www.itv.com/Drama/perioddrama/TheStoryoftheCostumeDrama/
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