Barry Hines: Kes, Threads and Beyond
- Submitting institution
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The University of Sheffield
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 4678
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- ISBN
- 9781784992620
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- 'Barry Hines: Kes, Threads and Beyond' is a substantial 230 page book grounded in wide-ranging research and covering the entirety of Hines’s career. It draws on an extensive physical archive which has been little researched, and makes an authoritative case for the positioning of Hines as an overlooked and under-appreciated figure in post-war British culture. The book has had a significant national and international impact and has reignited interest in Hines' work.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Forrest and Vice collaborated on the introduction (1-11) and conclusion (217-220) and divided their work equitably across each of the four chapters. Forrest wrote chapter 1, incorporating the analysis of Billy’s Last Stand, The Blinder, A Kestrel for a Knave and Kes (11-42). For chapter 2, Forrest wrote sections on First Signs, and Tom Kite, while Vice worked on the substantial sections on Speech Day, The Gamekeeper, and The Price of Coal (42-105). For chapter 3, Forrest wrote on Looks and Smiles and Threads, while Vice covered Unfinished Business and Threads. For chapter 4, Forrest covered the material on the miners’ strike, including analysis of The Heart of It and the unpublished miners’ strike plays, while Vice worked on at the analysis of Hines’s later works, ‘Looking at the Sun’, ‘Shooting Stars’, ‘Born Kicking’, ‘Elvis Over England’ (163-217). Three interviews took place for the book, with Forrest and Vice interviewing the film producer Tony Garnett together, Forrest interviewing the film producer Scott Marshall, and Vice interviewing the TV director John Goldschmidt.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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