Regional Aesthetics

Peter Atkinson, University of Central Lancashire, UKKris Erickson, University of Glasgow, UKDavid Forrest, University of Sheffield, UKKen Griffin, Freelance Media ResearcherMary Irwin, Northumbria University, UKGloria Khamkar, Bournemouth University, UKHeather Norris Nicholson, University of Huddersfield, UKDaryl Perrins, University of South Wales, UKMandy Powell, Queen Margaret University, UKSimon Gwyn Roberts, University of Chester, UKJulie E. Robinson, University of Warwick Library, UKDafydd Sills-Jones, Aberystwyth University, UKSue Vice, University of Sheffield, UK

• 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