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Informationen zum Autor 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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;
