{"product_id":"9783031236280","title":"UK and Irish Television Comedy : Representations of Region, Nation, and Identity (Palgrave Studies in Comedy) (1st ed. 2023. 2023. ix, 250 S. IX, 250 p. 210 mm)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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 Wood's work on 'the north', Ireland's \u003ci\u003eFather Ted \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDerry Girls\u003c\/i\u003e, Michaela Coel's east London set \u003ci\u003eChewing Gum\u003c\/i\u003e, and Wales' \u003ci\u003eGavin and Stacey\u003c\/i\u003e. There are chapters on Scottish sketch and animation comedy, and on series set in the Midlands, the North East, the South West and London's home counties. The book offers thoughtful reflection on funny and engaging representations of the diverse, fragmentedcomplexity of UK and Irish identity explored through the intersections of class, ethnicity and gender.\n\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Introduction, Mary Irwin and Jill Marshall.- England and its Regions.- 2. 'Our Close is Where England Lives': Territorial Terrors in \u003ci\u003eEver Decreasing Circles, \u003c\/i\u003eMark Readman.- 3. Victoria Wood on TV: We'd like to Apologise to Viewers in the North, Jill Marshall.- 4. 'Welcome to Sparkhill, Birmingham': Regionality and Race in \u003ci\u003eCitizen Khan, \u003c\/i\u003ePaul Elliott.- 5. Anywhere but Jarrow: \u003ci\u003eHebburn\u003c\/i\u003e and the Place of Geordie Comedy, James Leggott.- 6. Turkey Dinosaurs and Double Dinners: \u003ci\u003eT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ehis Country\u003c\/i\u003e's Everyday Lives in Rural Gloucestershire, Mary Irwin.- 7. Michaela Coel's \u003ci\u003eChewing Gum\u003c\/i\u003e: Redefining 'Unruliness' in London's East End, Laura Minor. - 8. 'I'm Waiting for You': \u003ci\u003eDetectorists\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eFather Ted, \u003c\/i\u003eMarcus Free.- 10. 'Now Say Something in .... Welsh': \u003ci\u003eGavin and Stacey\u003c\/i\u003e in Translation, Daryl Perrins.- 11. \u003ci\u003eDerry Girls\u003c\/i\u003e: Navigating Regionality, Trauma and Nostalgia in the Contemporary Sitcom, Anthony P. McIntyre.- 12. \u003ci\u003eScroogin on a Greg: \u003c\/i\u003eScottish Animated and Online Comedy, Nichola Dobson.- 13. 'Limmy-nality': 21st Century Glaswegian Scottish-ness in the Comedy of Brian 'Limmy' Limmond, Ian Wilkie.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDr 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 \u003ci\u003eLove Wars: Television Romantic Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e is forthcoming.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e This is a refreshing and vital book in its wide range of reference and most of all in its recognition that sitcoms remain important, as a way of working through identity through their situations and places, and above all, for British and Irish viewers, as a way of understanding ourselves and the culture in which we live. (Phil Wickham, Critical Studies in Television, Vol. 20 (2), June, 2025)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e The collection will be an essential read for students of the individual comedies examined and for comedy and media scholars with broader interests in negotiations of national identity and shifting patterns in the production and consumption of popular culture. (Sarah Ilott, Comedy Studies, February 12, 2024)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SPRINGER, BERLIN; SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING;","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48848168747243,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":329.59,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9783031236280-1.jpg?v=1781717376","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/zh\/products\/9783031236280","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}