Genres

• What genre can Peaky Blinders be classified as?

  Cross-genre or hybrid drama
• What subgenre characteristics does Peaky Blinders exhibit?

  Gangster subgenre characteristics
• How does Peaky Blinders differ from other crime genres?

  It focuses on the personal lives of a criminal family
• What historical period does Peaky Blinders concentrate on?

  Birmingham in 1919
• What production element does Peaky Blinders use to evoke its setting?

  Lavish production design
• What social aspects does Peaky Blinders explore?

  Social and political issues of the time
• Who is the creator and chief writer of Peaky Blinders?

  Steven Knight
• What movie genre inspired season 1 of Peaky Blinders?

  The Western genre
• What did Steven Knight aim to achieve by mythologizing British working-class lives?

  To create heroes similar to Cowboys in Westerns
• How did Americans mythologize 19th-century agricultural workers?

  By calling them Cowboys and making them heroes