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Heading North: The North of England in Film and Television
Dr Or Prof Mariusz Gradowski
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Hardback. Editor(s): Mazierska, Ewa. Num Pages: 282 pages, 19 colour illustrations, 19 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB; JHMC; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This collection presents a number of films and television programmes set in the North of England in an investigation of how northern identity imbricates with class, race, gender, rural and urban identities. Heading North considers famous screen images of the North, such as Coronation Street and Kes (1969), but the main purpose is to examine its lesser known facets. From Mitchell and Kenyon's `Factory Gate' films to recent horror series In the Flesh, the authors analyse how the dominant narrative of the North of England as an `oppressed region' subordinated to the economically and politically powerful South of England is ... Read more
This collection presents a number of films and television programmes set in the North of England in an investigation of how northern identity imbricates with class, race, gender, rural and urban identities. Heading North considers famous screen images of the North, such as Coronation Street and Kes (1969), but the main purpose is to examine its lesser known facets. From Mitchell and Kenyon's `Factory Gate' films to recent horror series In the Flesh, the authors analyse how the dominant narrative of the North of England as an `oppressed region' subordinated to the economically and politically powerful South of England is ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
305
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319524993
SKU
V9783319524993
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Ref
99-15
About Dr Or Prof Mariusz Gradowski
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).
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