Abstract: open access journal This article interrogates the figure of the Eastern European itinerant in contemporary prestige BBC drama to draw attention to the figure’s role in the mobilisation of ideas of nationhood and foreignness in Brexit-era Britain. Demonstrated through critical analyses of vampire horror Dracula (BBC1, 2020), crime thriller Killing Eve (BBC America, 2018-), and 1950s-set medical drama Call the Midwife (BBC1, 2012-), we argue that such programmes that putatively celebrate British multiculturalism and diversity configure the East...
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Topics: 
Media studies
Gender studies
Aesthetics