Regional Aesthetics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Ieuan Franklin

      Pages 1-13

3. Living on Location

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Living on Location: Amateur Creativity and Negotiating a Sense of Place in Yorkshire

      • Heather Norris Nicholson

      Pages 17-34

   3. Arcadia in Absentia: Cinema, the Great Depression and the Problem of Industrial Wales

      • Daryl Perrins

      Pages 35-54

   4. A Poetics of the North: Visual and Literary Geographies

      • David Forrest, Sue Vice

      Pages 55-67

4. Urban Subcultures and Structures of Feeling

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69

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   2. The Sons and Heirs of Something Particular: The Smiths’ Manchester Aesthetic, 1982–1987

      • Peter Atkinson

      Pages 71-89

   3. Away and Raffle Yourself! Still Game, Craiglang, Glasgow and Identity

      • Mary Irwin

      Pages 90-104

   4. Topological London

      • Kris Erickson

      Pages 105-121

5. Broadcasting and Belonging

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

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   2. A Region in Microcosm: Brandon Acton-Bond’s Post-War BBC Radio Features

      • Ieuan Franklin

      Pages 125-140

   3. Gi’ It Some ’Ommer: ITV Regional Programming and the Performance of the Black Country

      • Julie E. Robinson

      Pages 141-156

   4. A Post-War History of Radio for the Asian Community in Leicester

      • Gloria Khamkar

      Pages 157-168

   5. The Teliesyn Co-operative: National Broadcasting, Production Organisation and TV Aesthetics

      • Dafydd Sills-Jones

      Pages 169-181

6. Borders, Devolution and Contested Histories

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183

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   2. Sam Hanna Bell and the Ideology of Place

      • Hugh Chignell

      Pages 185-195

   3. Resisting Redefinition: The Portrayal of Northern Irish Identity in Ulster Television’s Schools Output, 1970–1977

      • Ken Griffin

      Pages 196-211

   4. ‘Nothing Similar in England’: The Scottish Film Council, the Scottish Education Department and the Utility of ‘Educational Film’ to Scotland

      • Mandy Powell

      Pages 212-229

   5. Impossible Unity? Representing Internal Diversity in Post-Devolution Wales

      • Simon Gwyn Roberts

      Pages 230-247

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.

• media
• regionalism
• everyday life
• media history
• community history
• space
• place
• identity
• community
• mobility
• geography
• border
• border narratives
• national identity
• social realism
• social history
• broadcasting
• UK media
• regional media
• media cultures
• aesthetics
• education
• film
• media culture
• Nation
• organization
• radio
• realism
• television

• Bournemouth University, UK

  Ieuan Franklin, Hugh Chignell, Kristin Skoog

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

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