TY - BOOK AU - Newland,Paul TI - The cultural construction of London's East End: urban iconography, modernity and the spatialisation of Englishness T2 - Spatial practices, SN - 9789401206242 AV - PN1995.9.L57 N49 2008eb U1 - 942.1/5 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Amsterdam, New York, NY PB - Rodopi KW - Cultural landscapes KW - England KW - London KW - Landscapes KW - Symbolic aspects KW - National characteristics, English KW - East End (London, England) KW - In motion pictures KW - In popular culture N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-295) and index; Includes filmography (pages 297-303); Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Development -- Apotheosis -- The Breath of the East -- From Bauhaus to the Blitz and Beyond -- After Ronan Point: Re-imagining the Territory -- Docklands: The Clearing of the Misery? -- After Empire: Tourism, Immigration and Colonisation -- Neo-Victorian Urban Visions -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - Paul Newland’s illuminating study explores the ways in which London’s East End has been constituted in a wide variety of texts – films, novels, poetry, television shows, newspapers and journals. Newland argues that an idea or image of the East End, which developed during the late nineteenth century, continues to function in the twenty-first century as an imaginative space in which continuing anxieties continue to be worked through concerning material progress and modernity, rationality and irrationality, ethnicity and 'Otherness', class and its related systems of behaviour. The Cultural Construction of London’s East End offers detailed examinations of the ways in which the East End has been constructed in a range of texts including BBC Television’s EastEnders , Monica Ali’s Brick Lane , Walter Besant’s All Sorts and Conditions of Men , Thomas Burke’s Limehouse Nights , Peter Ackroyd’s Hawksmoor , films such as Piccadilly, Sparrows Can’t Sing, The Long Good Friday, From Hell, The Elephant Man, and Spider , and in the work of Iain Sinclair UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401206242 ER -