This Is England: Authorship, Emotion and Class Telly

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This chapter considers the significance of social class and gender in relation to authorship and emotion, situating these tenets as key critical contexts for interpreting This Is England’86 (Channel 4, 2010), This Is England’88 (Channel 4, 2011) and This Is England’90 (Channel 4, 2015). Though widely recognised as texts ‘authored’ by Shane Meadows and Jack Thorne, I suggest that the significant creative contribution and improvisation of working-class actor Vicky McClure, amounts to co-authorship.

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Authors/Creators:	Johnson, BL https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7808-568X
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© The Author(s) 2017. This is an author produced version of a chapter published in Social Class and Television Drama in Contemporary Britain, ed. by D. Forrest and B. Johnson. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy.
Keywords:	Television authorship; This Is England - mini-series; Vicky McClure; Class television; Emotion; Feminist television
Dates:	Accepted: 1 December 2016 Published (online): 9 May 2017 Published: 9 May 2017
Institution:	The University of Leeds
Academic Units:	The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds)
Depositing User:	Symplectic Publications
Date Deposited:	20 Dec 2016 10:06
Last Modified:	09 May 2020 00:38
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55506-9_2

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