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Ewa Mazierska is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. She has published widely on European cinema, Marxism, representation of work and popular music. She is the author of From Self-Fulfilment to Survival of the Fittest (2015).

“This is a lucidly written, necessary book, with several exceptionally insightful chapters, which will be useful to postgraduates and scholars concerned with Northern screen fictions.” (Tom May, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol. 39 (4), 2019)“Mazierska begins the collection with what I consider the most rigorous survey of the canonical screen North written so far. It opens by defining the theoretical object of the North with which the collection is concerned. Dealing with a notoriously loose designation of place, Mazierska clearly establishes the North under examination as being the imagination of place: a set of images, stereotypes, myths.” (Daniel Martin, Critical Studies in Television, Vol. 14 (4), September, 2019)

• 1. Chapter 1 - Introduction: Imagining the North of England, by Ewa Mazierska.- 2. Part 1: The North, History and an Archive. Chapter 2 - Knocking-off Time in the North: Images of the Working Class and History in L.S. Lowry and Mitchell and Kenyon, by Paul Dave.- 3. Chapter 3 - Mediating Northern Identities and Loyalties Through Visual Heritage: An Unfinished  Journey, by Heather Norris Nicholson.- 4. Chapter 4 - To the Cheshire Station: Alan Garner and John Mackenzie’s Red Shift, by Brian Baker.- Part 2: The North and the Rural and Urban Identities. Chapter 5 - Screening South Yorkshire: The Gamekeeper and Looks and Smiles, by David Forrest and Sue Vice.- Chapter 6 - Re-reading Edge of Darkness: The Power of Northernness and the ‘Man of Feeling’, by Katharine Cockin.- Chapter 7 - Producing Habitus: ITV Soap Operas and the ‘Northern Powerhouse’, by Peter Atkinson.- Chapter 8 - Outlaws: Race, Class and Region in Recent Northern Legal Television Drama, by Andy Willis & Shivani Pal.- 9. Chapter 9 - It’s Grimm up North: Domestic Obscenity, Assimilation Anxiety and Medical Salvation in In the Flesh, by Amy C. Chambers and Hannah J. Elizabeth.- 10. Part 3: The North in a Transnational Context. Chapter 10 - Looking West, not South:  The Anglo-American Films Agreement and the North on Film, 1948 to 1958, by Alan Hughes.- 11. Chapter 11 - The North and Europe in 24 Hour Party People and Control, by Ewa Mazierska and Kamila Rymajdo.- 12. Chapter 12 - From North to East: Children and the Spatial Allegory of Entrapment in Ken Loach’s Kes and Csaba Bollók’s Iska's Journey, by Zsolt Győri.- 13. Chapter 13 - The (Global) Northern Working Class: Engels Revisited, by Deirdre O’Neill.