Outer Limits: Edgeland Spaces and Cultural Self-Imaginings in the Film and Television of Post-Industrial Britain

外部限制：后工业时代英国电影和电视中的边缘空间和文化自我想象

• 批准号: 2598003
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2598003
• 关键词: Outer; Limits; Edgeland; Spaces; Cultural

'Edgeland' spaces are outer-city environments that straddle the urban-rural divide. Encompassing retailparks, motorway services, housing developments and disused or repurposed factories, they formedaround industrial zones disarrayed by the British manufacturing crisis of the 1970s, though they wouldnot be properly classified until the early 21st century. This thesis will explore the roles edgelands haveplayed in the British cultural imaginary by studying their filmic and televisual representations from thepost-industrial era's beginnings through to the present day. Citing examples from various genres andmodes, the project will examine on-screen edgelands from socio-historical and aesthetic-theoreticalperspectives to determine their discursive significances and consider how these might engage culturalfeelings largely sublimated by dominant narratives of British identity. Special focus will be given to linksbetween these processes and the far-reaching reverberations of post-industrial change, the impacts ofwhich are particularly manifest in edgeland areas, around whose liminal bounds multiple economic andsocietal forces converge. Texts key to the study run the gamut from Clio Barnard's The Selfish Giant(2013) and Karl Francis' Street Life (1995), to Richard Handford's children's series Stig of the Dump(1982) and Ron Peck's documentary short On Allotments (1976), while also taking in archival materialson public safety and civil engineering.

“边缘地带”指的是跨越城乡分界线的城外环境。它们包括零售园区、高速公路服务、住房开发和废弃或重新用途的工厂，它们形成于因20世纪70年代英国制造业危机而分散的工业区周围，尽管它们直到21世纪初才被正确归类。这篇论文将通过研究从后工业时代开始到现在的电影和电视表现，来探讨边缘地带在英国文化想象中所扮演的角色。该项目将引用不同流派和模式的例子，从社会历史和美学理论的角度研究屏幕上的边缘地带，以确定它们的话语意义，并考虑这些边缘地带如何可能涉及在很大程度上由英国身份的主导叙事升华的文化情感。将特别关注这些进程与工业后变革的深远影响之间的联系，其影响在边缘地区尤为明显，这些地区的界限是多种经济和社会力量汇聚在一起的。这项研究的关键文本涵盖了从克里奥·巴纳德的《自私的巨人》(2013)和卡尔·弗朗西斯的《街头生活》(1995)，到理查德·汉德福德的儿童连续剧《垃圾场的斯蒂格》(1982)和罗恩·佩克的纪录片《分配的短片》(1976)，同时还收集了公共安全和土木工程方面的档案材料。