Overview
- Analyzes the representation of North-East England in film and television
- Argues for the significance and coherence of a North-East corpus of film and television through a series of case studies relating to specific eras or types of representation
- Discusses how the communities and landscapes of the region have been used to explore processes of cultural change, and legacies of de-industrialization
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About this book
This book analyses the representation of North-East England in film and television. It is a response to the way a number of important British films and programmes—for example, Get Carter (1971), Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads (1973-74), Our Friends in the North (1996) and Billy Elliot (2000)—have used this particular setting to explore questions of class, identity and history. It argues for the significance and coherence of a North-East corpus of film and television through a series of case studies relating to specific eras or types of representation. These include regional writers working for television in the 1970s, the achievements of the workshop movement in the 1980s and works produced within the genres of documentary, crime drama, comedy, period drama and reality television. The book discusses how the communities and landscapes of the region have been used to explore processes of cultural change, and legacies of de-industrialisation.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
James Leggott is Associate Professor in Film and Television Studies at Northumbria University, UK. He is the author of books on contemporary British cinema, and the films of the Amber Collective. He has published on various aspects of British film and television including period drama, comedy and documentary.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The North East of England on Film and Television
Authors: James Leggott
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69146-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69145-5Published: 29 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69148-6Published: 30 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-69146-2Published: 28 June 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 230
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: British Cinema and TV, Film/TV Industry, Regional and Cultural Studies, Regionalism, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning