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[Commlist] new book: UK and Irish Television Comedy

Thu Oct 05 21:10:50 GMT 2023





_UK and Irish Television Comedy: a new publication_

Introducing a new media studies publication, including scholarship in television studies, comedy studies and cultural studies:

*UK and Irish Television Comedy: Representations of Region, Nation, and Identity, *edited by Mary Irwin and Jill Marshall, published Sept 2023 by Palgrave Macmillan as part of the Palgrave Studies in Comedy book series.

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*ISBN 978-3-031-23628-0*

It is available as an e-book and in hardcover.

This is the link to the publication on Palgrave’s series page:

https://link.springer.com/book/9783031236280 <https://link.springer.com/book/9783031236280>

/UK and Irish Television Comedy: Representations of Region, Nation, and Identity/is a new addition to Palgrave’s Studies in Comedy series. Chapters by comedy studies scholars explore key television comedies and writer-performers, ranging from the 1980s to the present day, for whom representing the UK regions and nations and Ireland have been important. The collection analyses the comic representation of the regional and national of this comedy, from the point-of-view of specific places and people, some of whom have historically been the butts of humour. It also explores the distinctions of experience and belonging, such as race, gender, age, and class. The collection includes the anxious English suburbia of /Ever Decreasing Circles/, the urban London of /Chewing Gum/, the diverse midlands of /Citizen Khan/, the northern England of Victoria Wood and /Hebburn/, and the rural England of /This Country/ and /Detectorists/; /Father Ted/ represents a changing Ireland and /Derry Girls/ the Troubles in the North, Scottish regional sensibilities are explored in Limmy's Glasgow and /Scroogin on a Greg/ in the Borders, and /Gavin and Stacey/ offers a complex vision of Wales.

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