UK and Irish Television Comedy: Representations of Region, Nation, and Identity

Book Overview

This book looks at television comedy, drawn from across the UK and Ireland, and ranging chronologically from the 1980s to the 2020s. It explores depictions of distinctive geographical, historical and cultural communities presented from the insiders' perspective, simultaneously interrogating the particularity of the lived experience of time, and place, embedded within the wide variety of depictions of contrasting lives, experiences and sensibilities,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031236289
• ISBN13: 9783031236280
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"