Exporting Englishness: ITV's Poirot

Brewer, Mary F.

Exporting Englishness: ITV's Poirot

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posted on 2015-12-14, 13:17 authored by Mary F. Brewer

This essay will explore the export of Britishness via the heritage TV industry, using the long-running ITV series Poirot as a case study. It explores also how the producers have adapted Agatha's Christie's fiction and considers the ideological reasons for the series' popularity among British and American audiences.

History

School

The Arts, English and Drama

Department

English and Drama

Published in

Cops on the Box

Pages

1 - 1

Citation

BREWER, M.F., 2015. Exporting Englishness: ITV's Poirot. IN: McElroy, R. (ed.), Contemporary British Television Crime Drama: Cops on the Box. New York; London: Routledge, pp.169-183

Publisher

Routledge

Version

SMUR (Submitted Manuscript Under Review)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2015

Notes

This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Contemporary British Television Crime Drama: Cops on the Box on 25th Oct 2016, https://www.routledge.com/9781472454935 The paper was also presented at "Cops on the Box: Crime Drama on UK Screens" a one day conference, University of Glamorgan, Cardiff, March 15th. This chapter has not been copy edited and may contain errors, as well as editorial comments.