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Contents
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction: UK and Irish Television Comedy—Representations of Region, Nation, and Identity
Comedy, Identity and Cultural Belonging
UK Television Comedy
Social and Cultural Representations in UK Television Comedy
History, Place and Otherness in UK Television Comedy
The UK and Ireland: Nation, Region, Identity and Belonging
Changing Nations
Bibliography
Part I: England and Its Regions
Chapter 2: “Our Close Is Where England Lives”: Territorial Terrors in Ever Decreasing Circles
“Quite a close close”
Knowing One’s Place—The Problem of ‘liquidity’
Recreating, Crafting and Curating
The Pleasures of Kidderminster and the Terrors of Bruge
Crossing Borders (in an Orderly Fashion)
“This is our home”
Circles, Decreasing …
Bibliography
Chapter 3: Victoria Wood on Television: We’d like to Apologise to Viewers in the North
Wood’s Comic World
Constructing ‘Northern-ness’ on UK Television
Northern-ness as a Joking Position
From the Margins to the Centre
Ambiguous Northern-ness
Bibliography
Chapter 4: “Welcome to Sparkhill, Birmingham”: Regionality and Race in Citizen Khan
The Two Powells
Khan and Race
Khan and Birmingham
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 5: Anywhere but Jarrow: Hebburn and the Place of Geordie Comedy
Place and the British Sitcom
Geordie Comedy
Geordie Humour
Hebburn, Tyneside and the World
Bibliography
Chapter 6: Turkey Dinosaurs and Double Dinners: This Country’s Everyday Lives in Rural Gloucestershire
This Country and British Television Comedy
This Country and the South West
The ‘Un-Chic’ Rural Precariat
Creating, Chronicling and Analysing This Country
Rural Life and Austerity
The Church
Family and Community: ‘This is our Country’ (S01E06)
Bibliography
Books
Film
Television Series
Chapter 7: Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum: Redefining ‘Unruliness’ in London’s East End
Introduction
Situating the New ‘Unruly’ Woman
Representations of Intersectionality and Diversity in London’s East End
Complicating ‘Unruliness’ and Framing Intersectionality in Chewing Gum
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 8: “I’m Waiting for You”: Detectorists and the Comedy of Landscape
“Will You Search Through the Lonely Earth for Me?”
“Climb Through the Briar and Bramble”
“I’ll Be Your Treasure”
“I’m Waiting For You”
Bibliography
Part II: The Celtic UK Nations and Ireland
Chapter 9: ‘Down with this sort of thing’: Generation, Genre and the Undoing of Catholic Ireland in Father Ted
Generation, Migration and Television
‘You could almost send him to Ballykissangel’: The Character of Father Ted
Metatextuality, Sitcom Form and Character
‘Our only concession to satire’
Taste and Intertextuality
Bringing It All Back Home
References
Chapter 10: ‘Now say something in Welsh’: Gavin and Stacey in Translation
‘If truth be told …’: Translating Nessa
‘My name is Bryn; It means “hill” in Welsh’: Taffy in Translation
Speaking in Tongues: Gavin and Stacey’s Untranslated Wales
‘Aye, at least it means we don’t have to speak bloody Welsh’: Language and Class in the Clack Comedies
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 11: Derry Girls: Navigating Regionality, Trauma and Nostalgia in the Contemporary Sitcom
Girlhood, Belonging and Comedy
Schoolgirls, Murals and the City
Trans/National Television Reception and Regionalised Distinction
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 12: ‘Scroogin’ on a Greg’: Scottish Animated and Online Comedy
Online Distribution: Promoting Independent Scottish Comedy and Animation
Anderson and Henderson
Anderson and Henderson and Scotland
Bibliography
Chapter 13: ‘Limmy-nality’: Twenty-First-Century Glaswegian Scottish-ness in the Comedy of Brian ‘Limmy’ Limmond
Limmy
Limmy and the New Normal
Scottish-ness and C.U. Limmy
Limmy’s World of Glasgow
Limmy-nality
Conclusion—‘I’m just having a laugh’ (1,4)
Bibliography
Index