Blackpool in Film and Popular Music

Chapter One:  Introduction.  Ewa Mazierska,  University of Central Lancashire.- Chapter Two:  Behind the Façade: the liminal, margins, and the social shifts of cultural production in Blackpool grime. Dr. Adam de Paor-Evans, University of Central Lancashire.- Chapter Three:  Blackpool grime and Brexit - how Little T became the North's biggest pop star.  Dr. Kamila Rymajdo, freelance journalist and cultural commentator.- Chapter Four:  Punk in Blackpool. Philip Smith, Record Collector and Universal Records correspondent.- Chapter Five:  Blackpool 'Rock' 1967-c.1975 (working title).  Dr. Pete Atkinson, University of Central Lancashire.- Chapter Six:  Blackpool music venues 1960s to the present day.  Colin Appleby, music promoter.- Chapter Seven:  Travelling to and through Blackpool: Female Subjectivity and Social Realism in Hindle Wakes (1927), A Taste of Honey (1961), andBhaji on the Beach (1993).  Dr. Cecilia Mello, University of Sao Paolo.- Chapter Eight:  A Long Weekend In Purgatory: Blackpool in Away and Bob's Weekend.  Chad Bentley, University of Sheffield.- Chapter Nine:  Blackpool Fantasy Film and the Contemporary Dilemmas for Blackpool.  Professor Ewa Mazierska, University of Central Lancashire.

Ewa Mazierska is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. She has published over twenty monographs and edited collections on film and popular music. They include Heading North: The North of England in Film and Television (Palgrave, 2017) and Sounds Northern: Popular Music, Culture and Place in England's North (2018).