Visual Culture in the Northern British Archipelago - Imagining Islands

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.

List of contents

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;

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ysanne (Northumbria University) Martin-Jones Holt, Ysanne Martin-Jones Holt
• Assisted by: Ysanne Holt (Editor), Holt Ysanne (Editor), Owain Jones (Editor), Jones Owain (Editor), David Martin-Jones (Editor), Martin-Jones David (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032927718
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3292771-8
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: British Art: Histories and Interpretations since 1700
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; The arts: general issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, ART / History / General, Scotland, Anthropology, North & North East England, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Human Geography, North and North East England, The arts: general topics, ART / History / 20th & 21st Century, ART / European / General