Free standard shipping on all orders
  • Visa
  • Master Card
  • American Express
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • JCB

Visual Culture in the Northern British Archipelago: Imagining Islands book cover

1st Edition

Visual Culture in the Northern British Archipelago Imagining Islands

Edited By Ysanne Holt, David Martin-Jones, Owain Jones Copyright 2018
220 Pages 43 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 43 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 43 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
This edited collection, including contributors from the disciplines of art history, film studies, cultural geography and cultural anthropology, 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. Simultaneously, the chapters... Read more

Contents

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

Abstracts

Notes on contributors

Biography

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.

Add to Cart