Regional Aesthetics: Mapping UK Media Cultures

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Living on Location: Amateur Creativity and Negotiating a Sense of Place in Yorkshire....Pages 17-34
Arcadia in Absentia: Cinema, the Great Depression and the Problem of Industrial Wales....Pages 35-54
A Poetics of the North: Visual and Literary Geographies....Pages 55-67
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
The Sons and Heirs of Something Particular: The Smiths’ Manchester Aesthetic, 1982–1987....Pages 71-89
Away and Raffle Yourself! Still Game, Craiglang, Glasgow and Identity....Pages 90-104
Topological London....Pages 105-121
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
A Region in Microcosm: Brandon Acton-Bond’s Post-War BBC Radio Features....Pages 125-140
Gi’ It Some ’Ommer: ITV Regional Programming and the Performance of the Black Country....Pages 141-156
A Post-War History of Radio for the Asian Community in Leicester....Pages 157-168
The Teliesyn Co-operative: National Broadcasting, Production Organisation and TV Aesthetics....Pages 169-181
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Sam Hanna Bell and the Ideology of Place....Pages 185-195
Resisting Redefinition: The Portrayal of Northern Irish Identity in Ulster Television’s Schools Output, 1970–1977....Pages 196-211
‘Nothing Similar in England’: The Scottish Film Council, the Scottish Education Department and the Utility of ‘Educational Film’ to Scotland....Pages 212-229
Impossible Unity? Representing Internal Diversity in Post-Devolution Wales....Pages 230-247
Back Matter....Pages 249-258