Visual Culture in the Northern British Archipelago

Ysanne Holt is Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Northumbria University. David Martin-Jones is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Glasgow. Owain Jones is Professor of Environmental Humanities at Bath Spa University.

List of Illustrations

Notes on contributors

Acknolwedgements

Introduction

Ysanne Holt, David Martin-Jones and Owain Jones;

1. Islandness and Visual Culture between the Wars.

Ysanne Holt;

2. ‘Stones Hard’ and a ‘Sea like Glass’: Orwell’s Island Pastoral

Craig Richardson;

3. Island Geographies, The Second World War Film and the Northern Isles of Scotland

Ian Goode;

4. 'A Hesitation of the Tide': Lindisfarne, Iona, Venice

Murdo Macdonald;

5. ‘All is Lithogenesis’; Contemporary Memorials on the Isle of Lewis

Tom Normand;

6. Mac, Son of William McTaggart: Time Travelling Children in Gaelic Island Films.

David Martin-Jones;

7. Fantasy Islands of the Cinematic and Televisual North: Genre and the Location of Anxiety

Peter Hutchings;

8. Shetland on YouTube: Youth Film in the Northern Isles

Rupert Ashmore;

9. Drawn Together: Patterning Holy Island

Julie Crawshaw;

10. Views over the Sound. Imagining (Northern) Isles as Grounds for Alternative Narratives of becoming Non-modern.

Owain Jones and Laura Denning;