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Author:   Martin Fradley (Freelance film scholar, Edge Hill University) ,  Sarah Godfrey (Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, University of East Anglia) ,  Melanie Williams (Reader in Film and Television Studies, University of East Anglia)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.472kg
ISBN:  

9780748676392

ISBN 10:   0748676392
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   22 July 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Contents ;1) Introduction: Shane’s World,Martin Fradley, Sarah Godfrey and Melanie Williams; 2) Structure and Agency: Shane Meadows and the New Regional Production Sectors, Jack Newsinger; 3) Twenty-first-Century Social Realism: Shane Meadows and New British Realism, Dave Forrest; 4) ‘Al Fresco? That’s up yer anus, innit?’: Shane Meadows and the Politics of Abjection, Martin Fradley; 5) No More Heroes: The Politics of Marginality and Disenchantment in TwentyFourSeven and This is England, Jill Steans; 6) ‘Now I’m The Monster’: Remembering, Repeating and Working Through in Dead Man’s Shoes and TwentyFourSeven, Paul Elliott; 7) ‘An object of indecipherable bastardry – a true monster’: Homosociality, Homoeroticism and Generic Hybridity in Dead Man’s Shoes, Clair Schwarz; 8) A Message to You, Maggie: 1980s Skinhead Subculture and Music in This Is England , Tim Snelson and Emma Sutton; 9) Changing Spaces of ‘Englishness’: Psychogeography and Spatial Practices in This is England and Somers Town, Sarah N. Petrovic; 10) ‘Shane, don’t film this bit’: Comedy and Performance in Le Donk and Scor-zay-zee, Brett Mills; 11) ‘Them over there’: Motherhood and Marginality in Shane Meadows’ Films, Louise FitzGerald and Sarah Godfrey; 12) ‘What do you think makes a bad dad?’: Shane Meadows and Fatherhood, Martin Fradley and Sean Kingston; 13) Is This England ’86 and ’88? Memory, Haunting and Return through Television Seriality , David Rolinson and Faye Woods; 14) After Laughter Comes Tears: Passion and Redemption in This is England ’88, Robert Murphy

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"This is a diverse and fascinating exploration of a complex director, one of the most important working in contemporary British cinema. It sets out some of the compelling reasons why Meadows' work rewards close critical and theoretical attention.-- ""Paul Dave, University of East London"""

Author Information

Martin Fradley is a former lecturer at the University of Aberdeen and Manchester University. He has published work in collections including Falling in Love Again: Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema, American Horror Film: the Genre at the turn of the Millennium and Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media. He is a regular contributor to Film Quarterly. Sarah Godfrey is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia. Her publications include work on gender, race and class in British and American film and television. Melanie Williams is Reader in Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia. Her publications include the monographs David Lean (2014) and Female Stars of British Cinema (2017) and the co-edited collections British Women’s Cinema (2009) and Ealing Revisited (2012).

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