UK and Irish television comedy : representations of region, nation, and identity / Mary Irwin, Jill Marshall, editors.
Irwin, Mary, editor. 1955-; Marshall, Jill, 1964- editor.
2023
PN1992.8.C66
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Title UK and Irish television comedy : representations of region, nation, and identity / Mary Irwin, Jill Marshall, editors.
ISBN 9783031236297 (electronic bk.)
3031236297 (electronic bk.)
9783031236280
3031236289
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23629-7
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Language English
Description 1 online resource (ix, 250 pages).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-23629-7 doi
Call Number PN1992.8.C66
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.45/6170941
Summary This book looks at television comedy, drawn from across the UK and Ireland, and ranging chronologically from the 1980s to the 2020s. It explores depictions of distinctive geographical, historical and cultural communities presented from the insiders perspective, simultaneously interrogating the particularity of the lived experience of time, and place, embedded within the wide variety of depictions of contrasting lives, experiences and sensibilities, which the collected individual chapters offer. Comedies considered include Victoria Woods work on the north, Irelands Father Ted and Derry Girls, Michaela Coels east London set Chewing Gum, and Wales Gavin and Stacey. There are chapters on Scottish sketch and animation comedy, and on series set in the Midlands, the North East, the South West and Londons home counties. The book offers thoughtful reflection on funny and engaging representations of the diverse, fragmented complexity of UK and Irish identity explored through the intersections of class, ethnicity and gender. 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.
Note Includes index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 27, 2023).
Added Author Irwin, Mary, editor. 1955-
Marshall, Jill, 1964- editor.
Series Palgrave studies in comedy.
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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: Wed 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 Countrys Everyday Lives in Rural Gloucestershire, Mary Irwin
7. Michaela Coels Chewing Gum: Redefining Unruliness in Londons East End, Laura Minor. - 8. Im 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.

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