[Commlist] new book: UK and Irish Television Comedy

_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.

**

*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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