Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
1 Introduction
Bibliography
2 Early Representations of the North East
2.1 1896 to the Second World War
2.2 Post-war Representations
2.3 Televisual Representations
Bibliography
3 Native Voices: North-East Drama Writers on Television in the 1970s
3.1 Alan Plater and ‘Close the Coalhouse Door’
3.2 James Mitchell
3.3 Sid Chaplin
3.4 Tom Hadaway
3.4.1 The Filleting Machine and Full House
3.4.2 Contributions to Stands and Series
3.5 Other Regional Writers
Bibliography
4 The Workshop Movement in the 1980s: Alternative Visions of the North East
4.1 Perspectives from the North East
4.2 Documenting and Historicising Industry and Labour
4.3 Challenging Representation
4.4 The Decline of the Workshops
Bibliography
5 Comedy, Television and the North East
5.1 Too Much for Television? Bobby Thompson, Andy Capp, Viz And Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown
5.2 North-East Television Comedies
5.3 Laughing at the North East
Bibliography
6 Histories of the North East
6.1 When the Boat Comes in (BBC, 1976–1981)
6.2 Catherine Cookson Country
6.3 The Recent Past: Our Friends in the North (BBC, 1996) and Billy Elliot (Daldry, 2001)
6.4 Twenty-First Century Drama
6.5 Documentary and the Archive
6.6 Historicising North-East Film and Television
Bibliography
7 Crime Film and Television
7.1 Gangsters: Get Carter (Hodges, 1971) and Stormy Monday (Figgis, 1988)
7.2 Police Drama: Spender (BBC, 1991–1993) and 55 Degrees North (BBC, 2004–2005)
7.3 Vera (ITV, 2011–) and Contemporary Policing
Bibliography
8 The North East in the Twenty-First Century: New Realities?
8.1 From the World to the North East
8.2 Gender and Sexuality
8.3 Reality Television
8.4 The Left Behind?
8.5 Contemporary Documentary and ‘Poverty Porn’
8.6 Locating the North East in Film and Television
Bibliography
Index