REGIONAL IDENTITY REPRESENTATIONS IN TV

DRAMA

• What is it?

• How is this involved In TV drama?

• Stereotypes

WHAT IS REGIONAL IDENTITY ?

Regions of England have very different representations.

Normally, the North is thought to be quite violent and rough,

where the South is to be considered very middle-class and

aristocratic. Neither of these representations are exactly true, as

there are the middle-class parts of the North, and more

unestablished areas in the South. These regional stereotypes in TV

drama are called regional identity and they are how can audience

can interpret a character or setting by Mis en Scene aspects and

be given the connotation of that certain region.

TV DRAMA REGIONAL IDENTITY.

Example : Heartbeat

Heartbeat was one of the longest running shows on TV until recently. It showed the north in a professional way, however till kept to a lot of the scenery and representations that were seen in other TV dramas so as to make it another representation of Yorkshire.

The North of England is generally seen as: quite rural having nostalgic ideas, quite old-fashioned historic depiction friendly, not too hard-hitting mostly shown to contain the elderly These representations usually come from London media companies, so play on the

stereotypes and accepted idea about Yorkshire as farmland and small villages etc.

STEREOTYPES OF REGIONS IN THE UK

Regional Examples:

•Scouse (Liverpool)

•Geordie (Newcastle)

•Essex boy/girl (Essex)

•Yorkshire man (Yorkshire)

Scott (scottish)

Welshman (wales

Irish

DOC MARTIN CLIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gfYWZzaTBI

The hand out essay is a former AS students essay

writing about the representations from the clip and

how regional identity is included here.