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.
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
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