Regional Aesthetics - Mapping UK Media Cultures

This book is about forms of media that have reflected or increased consciousness of - a sense of place or a regional identity. From landscape painting in the Romantic era to newspaper coverage of devolution, the chapters explore, through contextualized case studies, the aesthetics of a wide range of local, regional and grassroots forms of media.

About the author

Peter Atkinson, University of Central Lancashire, UK

Kris Erickson, University of Glasgow, UK

David Forrest, University of Sheffield, UK

Ken Griffin, Freelance Media Researcher

Mary Irwin, Northumbria University, UK

Gloria Khamkar, Bournemouth University, UK

Heather Norris Nicholson, University of Huddersfield, UK

Daryl Perrins, University of South Wales, UK

Mandy Powell, Queen Margaret University, UK

Simon Gwyn Roberts, University of Chester, UK

Julie E. Robinson, University of Warwick Library, UK

Dafydd Sills-Jones, Aberystwyth University, UK

Sue Vice, University of Sheffield, UK

Summary

This book is about forms of media that have reflected or increased consciousness of - a sense of place or a regional identity. From landscape painting in the Romantic era to newspaper coverage of devolution, the chapters explore, through contextualized case studies, the aesthetics of a wide range of local, regional and grassroots forms of media.

Product details

• Assisted by: Hugh Chignell (Editor), Ieua Franklin (Editor), Ieuan Franklin (Editor), Kristin Skoog (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2020
• EAN: 9781349570935
• ISBN: 978-1-349-57093-5
• No. of pages: 258
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 16 mm x 217 mm
• Weight: 350 g
• Illustrations: XIV, 258 p. 13 illus.
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Film, Soziologie, Radio, Nation, B, Kulturwissenschaften, Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften, Education, Media Studies, Sociology, Society, Cultural Studies, Aesthetics, Society & social sciences, Television, Media Culture, Organization, Communication, biotechnology, Social Sciences, Regional and Cultural Studies, Regional Cultural Studies, Social Sciences, general, Media and Communication, Regional Studies, Philosophy: aesthetics, Realism, Philosophie Ästhetik, Culture—Study and teaching, Media and Communication Theory, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Children's Literature, Children’s & teenage literature studies: general, Kinder- und Jugendliteraturwissenschaft: allgemein