1st Edition
Visual Culture in the Northern British Archipelago Imagining Islands
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 reflect upon the importance of these islands as a space in which, and with which, to contemplate the pressures and the possibilities within contemporary society. This book makes a timely and original contribution to the developing field of island studies, and will be of interest to scholars studying issues of place, community and the peripheries.
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.
