The North East of England on film and television 1st ed.

Author

• Leggott, James

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030691462

Series

Subject(s)

• BILLY ELLIOT (MOTION PICTURE)
• GET CARTER (MOTION PICTURE : 1971)

Notes

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Abstract

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.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xii, 230 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

Chapter 1. Introduction --
Chapter 2. Early Representations of the North East --
Chapter 3. Native Voices: North-East Drama Writers on Television in the 1970s --
Chapter 4. The Workshop movement in the 1980s: Alternative Visions of the North East --
Chapter 5. Comedy, Television and the North East --
Chapter 6. Histories of the North East --
Chapter 7. Crime Film and Television --
Chapter 8. The North East in the Twenty-First Century: New Realities.

Exemplar(s)

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