Heading North: The North of England in Film and Television [Hardcover]

This collection presents a number of films and television programmes set in the North of England in an investigation of how northern identity imbricates with class, race, gender, rural and urban identities. Heading North considers famous screen images of the North, such as Coronation Street and Kes (1969), but the main purpose is to examine its lesser known facets. From Mitchell and Kenyons Factory Gate films to recent horror series In the Flesh, the authors analyse how the dominant narrative of the North of England as an oppressed region subordinated to the economically and politically powerful South of England is challenged. The book discusses the relationship between the North of England and the rest of the world and should be of interest to students of British cinema and television, as well as to those broadly interested in its history and culture.

1. Chapter 1 - Introduction: Imagining the North of England, by Ewa Mazierska.- 2. Part 1: The North, History and an Archive. Chapter 2 - Knocking-off Time in the North: Images of the Working Class and History in L.S. Lowry and Mitchell and Kenyon, by Paul Dave.- 3. Chapter 3 - Mediating Northern Identities and Loyalties Through Visual Heritage: An Unfinished  Journey, by Heather Norris Nicholson.- 4. Chapter 4 - To the Cheshire Station: Alan Garner and John Mackenzies Red Shift, by Brian Baker.- Part 2: The North and the Rural and Urban Identities. Chapter 5 - Screening South Yorkshire: The Gamekeeper and Looks and Smiles, by David Forrest and Sue Vice.- Chapter 6 - Re-reading Edge of Darkness: The Power of Northernness and the Man of Feeling, by Katharine Cockin.- Chapter 7 - Producing Habitus:lƒ)