Regional aesthetics : mapping UK media cultures /

"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...

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Other Authors: Franklin, Ieuan, 1980- (Editor), Chignell, Hugh (Editor), Skoog, Kristin, 1979- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Ieuan Franklin
  • Part I: Living on Location. 1. Living on Location: Amateur Creativity and Negotiating a Sense of Place in Yorkshire / Heather Norris Nicholson ; 2. Arcadia in Absentia: Cinema, the Great Depression and the Problem of Industrial Wales / Daryl Perrins ; 3. A Poetics of the North: Visual and Literary Geographies / David Sheffield and Sue Vice
  • Part II: Urban Subcultures and Structures of Feeling. 4.The Sons and Heirs of Something Particular: The Smiths' Manchester Aesthetic, 1982-1987 / Peter Atkinson ; 5. Away and Raffle Yourself! Still Game, Craiglang, Glasgow and Identity / Mary Irwin ; 6.Topological London / Kris Erickson
  • Part III: Broadcasting and Belonging. 7. A Region in Microcosm: Brandon Acton-Bond's Post-War BBC Radio Features / Ieuan Franklin ; 8. Gi' it some 'ommer: ITV Regional Programming and the Performance of the Black Country / Julie Robinson ; 9. A Post-War History of Radio for the Asian Community in Leicester / Gloria Khamkar ; 10. The Teliesyn Co-operative: National Broadcasting, Production Organization and TV Aesthetics / Dafydd Sills-Jones
  • Part IV: Borders, Devolution and Contested Histories. 11. Sam Hanna Bell and the ideology of place / Hugh Chignell ; 12. Resisting redefinition: the portrayal of Northern Irish identity in Ulster Television's schools output, 1970-77 / Ken Griffin ; 13. 'Nothing Similar in England': the Scottish Film Council, the Scottish Education Department and the Utility of 'Educational Film' to Scotland / Mandy Powell ; 14. Impossible unity? Representing internal diversity in post-devolution Wales / Simon Gwyn. Roberts.