UK and Irish Television Comedy

Representations of Region, Nation, and Identity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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This book looks at television comedy, drawn from across the UK and Ireland, and ranging chronologically from the 1980s to the 2020s.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-09-20
Mått148 x 210 x 21 mm
Vikt464 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Studies in Comedy
Antal sidor250
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031236280

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Dr Mary Irwin is a cultural historian and TV studies specialist, and an honorary research fellow at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK. She has published extensively on contemporary and historical television, television genres, and gender. Her monograph on television romantic comedy Love Wars: Television Romantic Comedy is forthcoming. Dr Jill Marshall is a lecturer at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK, and specialises in textual and popular cultural studies. She has a PhD in the subject of women in comedy and organised the 2017 ‘Value of Comedy’ symposium at which this collection was conceived.

1. Introduction, Mary Irwin and Jill Marshall.- England and its Regions.- 2. ‘Our Close is Where England Lives’: Territorial Terrors in Ever Decreasing Circles, Mark Readman.- 3. Victoria Wood on TV: We’d like to Apologise to Viewers in the North, Jill Marshall.- 4. ‘Welcome to Sparkhill, Birmingham’: Regionality and Race in Citizen Khan, Paul Elliott.- 5. Anywhere but Jarrow: Hebburn and the Place of Geordie Comedy, James Leggott.- 6. Turkey Dinosaurs and Double Dinners: This Country’s Everyday Lives in Rural Gloucestershire, Mary Irwin.- 7. Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum: Redefining ‘Unruliness’ in London’s East End, Laura Minor. - 8. ‘I’m Waiting for You’: Detectorists and the Comedy of Landscape, Brett Mills.- The Celtic UK Nations and Ireland.- 9. ‘Down with this Sort of Thing’: Generation, Genre and the Undoing of Catholic Ireland in Father Ted, Marcus Free.- 10. ‘Now Say Something in …. Welsh’: Gavin and Stacey in Translation, Daryl Perrins.- 11. Derry Girls: Navigating Regionality, Trauma and Nostalgia in the Contemporary Sitcom, Anthony P. McIntyre.- 12. Scroogin on a Greg: Scottish Animated and Online Comedy, Nichola Dobson.- 13. ‘Limmy-nality’: 21st Century Glaswegian Scottish-ness in the Comedy of Brian 'Limmy' Limmond, Ian Wilkie.