Other Media

Abstract

Poverty literature does not function on its own but is entangled with representations in a wide range of old and new media and genres. This leads to a dense network of representation which increases the visibility of poverty across the various cultural fields and markets. The chapter surveys fields of contemporary cultural production that have a special affinity with the book market: photography, cinema, television and theatre. Case studies include reality television, films (Ratcatcher and Fish Tank), theatre (Simon Stephens’s Port and the Voices from the Edge project) as well as Chris Killip’s photo book Seacoal.