Format:
258 S.
,
Ill.
ISBN:
9781137532824
Content:
"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, and the 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"--
Content:
"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, and the 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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Machine generated contents note: Introduction
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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 ; 4.The Sons and Heirs of Something Particular: The Smiths' Manchester Aesthetic, 1982-7
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5. Away and Raffle Yourself! Still Game, Craiglang, Glasgow and Identity
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6.Topological London
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Part III: Broadcasting and Belonging 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
,
Part IV: Borders, Devolution and Contested Histories. 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, 1970-77
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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
Additional Edition:
Online-Ausg. u.d.T. Regional aesthetics Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 ISBN 9781137532831
Language:
English
Keywords:
Großbritannien
;
Massenmedien
;
Region
;
Aufsatzsammlung
