History and Place in Television Drama: Liverpool in Cilia and Boys From the Blackstuff

Mahoney, Cat ORCID: 0000-0002-5495-0031 (2022) History and Place in Television Drama: Liverpool in Cilia and Boys From the Blackstuff. CRITICAL STUDIES IN TELEVISION, 17 (4). pp. 397-414.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17496020221110362

Abstract

<jats:p> This article explores historical representations of Liverpool in two television dramas: ITV’s Cilla (2014) and the BBC’s Boys from the Blackstuff (1982). It is concerned with the ways that television drama can both record and recreate places from the past. Focussing on two dramas set in Liverpool at formative moments in the city’s past, it considers the centrality of an evocation of place and specifically the space of the city to both series and the ways that television dramas that mobilise such a strong sense place can become intrinsic to the heritage and history of the places they depict. </jats:p>

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Liverpool, television, drama, city, merseybeat, place, nostalgia
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of the Arts
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	03 May 2022 07:53
Last Modified:	18 Oct 2023 01:22
DOI:	10.1177/17496020221110362
Related URLs:	Author Publisher
URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3154169