Regional Aesthetics

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.

Autorentext
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

Inhalt

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