Regional Aesthetics [electronic resource] : Mapping UK Media Cultures /
Chignell, Hugh.editor.
Franklin, Ieuan.editor.
Skoog, Kristin.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: 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, 1982-7 / 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.
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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