"Although there is an increased awareness of the relevance of space and geography across humanities disciplines (the so-called 'spatial turn'), its applicability to UK media history has hitherto been largely overlooked, partly due to the prevailing interest in the discursive formation of national or globalised identity through media. This anthology sets out to redress this, through specially written chapters which explore regional media cultures, the communication of place, the influence of location, andthe idea of geographically located identity. Regional Aesthetics has a historical (as well as geographical) and a cross-media focus, examining the aesthetic and political dimensions of regional representations in film (feature films, amateur film and educational film); novels; television (drama, comedy, documentary and educational programming); music; radio; and digital media. In mapping UK media cultures across the C20th and beyond, this books functions as an 'academic GPS', designed to introduce and encourage the study of regionally located media in the curriculum"--
This book is about forms of media that have reflected or increased consciousness of - a sense of place or a regional identity. From landscape painting in the Romantic era to newspaper coverage of devolution, the chapters explore, through contextualized case studies, the aesthetics of a wide range of local, regional and grassroots forms of media.
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| Introduction |
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Part I Living on Location |
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1 Living on Location: Amateur Creativity and Negotiating a Sense of Place in Yorkshire |
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2 Arcadia in Absentia: Cinema, the Great Depression and the Problem of Industrial Wales |
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3 A Poetics of the North: Visual and Literary Geographies |
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Part II Urban Subcultures and Structures of Feeling |
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4 The Sons and Heirs of Something Particular: The Smiths' Manchester Aesthetic, 1982--1987 |
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5 Away and Raffle Yourself! Still Game, Craiglang, Glasgow and Identity |
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Part III Broadcasting and Belonging |
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7 A Region in Microcosm: Brandon Acton-Bond's Post-War BBC Radio Features |
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8 Gi' It Some 'Ommer: ITV Regional Programming and the Performance of the Black Country |
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9 A Post-War History of Radio for the Asian Community in Leicester |
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10 The Teliesyn Co-operative: National Broadcasting, Production Organisation and TV Aesthetics |
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Part IV Borders, Devolution and Contested Histories |
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11 Sam Hanna Bell and the Ideology of Place |
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12 Resisting Redefinition: The Portrayal of Northern Irish Identity in Ulster Television's Schools Output, 1970--1977 |
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13 `Nothing Similar in England': The Scottish Film Council, the Scottish Education Department and the Utility of `Educational Film' to Scotland |
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14 Impossible Unity? Representing Internal Diversity in Post-Devolution Wales |
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Peter Atkinson, University of Central Lancashire, UK
Kris Erickson, University of Glasgow, UK
David Forrest, University of Sheffield, UK
Ken Griffin, Freelance Media Researcher
Mary Irwin, Northumbria University, UK
Gloria Khamkar, Bournemouth University, UK
Heather Norris Nicholson, University of Huddersfield, UK
Daryl Perrins, University of South Wales, UK
Mandy Powell, Queen Margaret University, UK
Simon Gwyn Roberts, University of Chester, UK
Julie E. Robinson, University of Warwick Library, UK
Dafydd Sills-Jones, Aberystwyth University, UK
Sue Vice, University of Sheffield, UK
