Regional Aesthetics

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Living on Location: Amateur Creativity and Negotiating a Sense of Place in Yorkshire

Chapter 3 Arcadia in Absentia: Cinema, the Great Depression and the Problem of Industrial Wales

Chapter 4 A Poetics of the North: Visual and Literary Geographies

Chapter 5 The Sons and Heirs of Something Particular: The Smiths’ Manchester Aesthetic, 1982–1987

Chapter 6 Away and Raffle Yourself! Still Game , Craiglang, Glasgow and Identity

Chapter 7 Topological London

Chapter 8 A Region in Microcosm: Brandon Acton-Bond’s Post-War BBC Radio Features

Chapter 9 Gi’ It Some ’Ommer: ITV Regional Programming and the Performance of the Black Country

Chapter 10 A Post-War History of Radio for the Asian Community in Leicester

Chapter 11 The Teliesyn Co-operative: National Broadcasting, Production Organisation and TV Aesthetics

Chapter 12 Sam Hanna Bell and the Ideology of Place

Chapter 13 Resisting Redefinition: The Portrayal of Northern Irish Identity in Ulster Television’s Schools Output, 1970–1977

Chapter 14 ‘Nothing Similar in England’: The Scottish Film Council, the Scottish Education Department and the Utility of ‘Educational Film’ to Scotland

Chapter 15 Impossible Unity? Representing Internal Diversity in Post-Devolution Wales