Blackpool in Film and Popular Music: From Kitsch to Cool

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), and Bhaji 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.