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I am a mature student (being the grand old age of 31!) at The University of Central Lancashire in Preston and now in my third and final year. Being from Leeds and proud of my home town I read this forum very regularly so coming here for help is my first port of call. I am writing my dissertation at the moment which is about how has the media’s depiction of Northern England through television and film changed since 1960 to the current day? I am just hoping that someone could tell where I can find books, articles essays and the like on the north in film and Television. Thanks in advance for your help!

You could try the Pathe News archive.

Your starter for 10:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_sink_realism

Yes you want to check out the new wave and social realism cinema of the 1960s - films like Saturday Night Sunday Morning, This Sporting Life, Billy Liar, A Taste of Honey, Room At the Top, A Kind of Loving, Kes etc. One of my own favorites from the 1980s - also written by Barry Hines was 'Threads' set in Sheffield against the background of a cold war nuclear war.

jonleeds wrote: Yes you want to check out the new wave and social realism cinema of the 1960s - films like Saturday Night Sunday Morning, This Sporting Life, Billy Liar, A Taste of Honey, Room At the Top, A Kind of Loving, Kes etc. One of my own favorites from the 1980s - also written by Barry Hines was 'Threads' set in Sheffield against the background of a cold war nuclear war. This Sporting Life brought back memory's. I used to clean Ken Traill's car every Saturday morning at the Prospect pub & one day parked along side his was a Rolls Royce belonging to Richard Harris. Richard Harris the star of This Sporting Life had gotten to be friends with Ken when they used the Wakefield Trinity ground for the film Ken played the fictional Trainer.

Tyke wrote: jonleeds wrote: Yes you want to check out the new wave and social realism cinema of the 1960s - films like Saturday Night Sunday Morning, This Sporting Life, Billy Liar, A Taste of Honey, Room At the Top, A Kind of Loving, Kes etc. One of my own favorites from the 1980s - also written by Barry Hines was 'Threads' set in Sheffield against the background of a cold war nuclear war. This Sporting Life brought back memory's. I used to clean Ken Traill's car every Saturday morning at the Prospect pub & one day parked along side his was a Rolls Royce belonging to Richard Harris. Richard Harris the star of This Sporting Life had gotten to be friends with Ken when they used the Wakefield Trinity ground for the film Ken played the fictional Trainer. Yorkshire film archive?

Tyke wrote: jonleeds wrote: Yes you want to check out the new wave and social realism cinema of the 1960s - films like Saturday Night Sunday Morning, This Sporting Life, Billy Liar, A Taste of Honey, Room At the Top, A Kind of Loving, Kes etc. One of my own favorites from the 1980s - also written by Barry Hines was 'Threads' set in Sheffield against the background of a cold war nuclear war. This Sporting Life brought back memory's. I used to clean Ken Traill's car every Saturday morning at the Prospect pub & one day parked along side his was a Rolls Royce belonging to Richard Harris. Richard Harris the star of This Sporting Life had gotten to be friends with Ken when they used the Wakefield Trinity ground for the film Ken played the fictional Trainer. A still from the movie This Sporting Life, that's my dad in the white jacket just under the MC's arm. Filmed at Wakefield Mecca/Locarno. They used the resident band (Dennis Langfield Orchestra) as it was cheaper than getting actor/musicians in. My dad, Frankie Martin, was the singer with the band.

Films from that era make life look cold and grim but as a child in that era I don't remember it been anything like that.

In some respects not much has changed - you only have to look at the soaps set in the North to see that as far as the production types are concerned any accent north of Nottingham qualifies as generic 'Northern'.Thats why Coronation Street and Emmerdale (both of which I now take every effort to avoid) are full of Mancs, Lancs, Scousers, Geordies, Mackems, Smoggies and every wandering Yorkshire accent from Barnsley to Leeds to North Bankers to Scarborough.Similarly, certain actors are parachuted into 'Northern' roles with monotonous regularity regardless if their accent fits or not (John Henshaw - a Mancunian - is a good example).Anyway enough o'that, I've got to take t'whippet for t'walk. Where's me flat cap..?