Visual Culture in the Northern British Archipelago

Imagining Islands
Herausgeber: Martin-Jones, David; Holt, Ysanne; Jones, Owain

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Produktbeschreibung

This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores ways in which islands in the north of England and Scotland have provided space for a variety of visual-cultural practices and forms of creative expression which have informed our understanding of the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032927718
• ISBN-10: 1032927712
• Artikelnr.: 71545841

Autorenporträt

Ysanne Holt is Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Northumbria University. David Martin-Jones is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Glasgow. Owain Jones is Professor of Environmental Humanities at Bath Spa University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknolwedgements
Introduction
Ysanne Holt, David Martin-Jones and Owain Jones;
1. Islandness and Visual Culture between the Wars.
Ysanne Holt;
2. 'Stones Hard' and a 'Sea like Glass': Orwell's Island Pastoral
Craig Richardson;
3. Island Geographies, The Second World War Film and the Northern Isles of
Scotland
Ian Goode;
4. 'A Hesitation of the Tide': Lindisfarne, Iona, Venice
Murdo Macdonald;
5. 'All is Lithogenesis'; Contemporary Memorials on the Isle of Lewis
Tom Normand;
6. Mac, Son of William McTaggart: Time Travelling Children in Gaelic Island
Films.
David Martin-Jones;
7. Fantasy Islands of the Cinematic and Televisual North: Genre and the
Location of Anxiety
Peter Hutchings;
8. Shetland on YouTube: Youth Film in the Northern Isles
Rupert Ashmore;
9. Drawn Together: Patterning Holy Island
Julie Crawshaw;
10. Views over the Sound. Imagining (Northern) Isles as Grounds for
Alternative Narratives of becoming Non-modern.
Owain Jones and Laura Denning;