The cultural construction of London's East End :: urban iconography, modernity and the spatialisation of Englishness /

Paul Newland's illuminating study explores the ways in which London's East End has been constituted in a wide variety of texts - films, novels, poetry, television shows, newspapers and journals. Newland argues that an idea or image of the East End, which developed during the late nineteent...

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1. Verfasser: Newland, Paul (Lecturer in film studies)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2008.
Schriftenreihe:Spatial practices ; 5.
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Zusammenfassung:Paul Newland's illuminating study explores the ways in which London's East End has been constituted in a wide variety of texts - films, novels, poetry, television shows, newspapers and journals. Newland argues that an idea or image of the East End, which developed during the late nineteenth century, continues to function in the twenty-first century as an imaginative space in which continuing anxieties continue to be worked through concerning material progress and modernity, rationality and irrationality, ethnicity and 'Otherness', class and its related systems of behaviour. The Cultural Constr.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (321 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-295) and index.
Includes filmography (pages 297-303).
ISBN:9781435685482
1435685482
9789401206242
9401206244
9042024542
9789042024540
ISSN:1871-689X ;

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