Ireland and Cinema [electronic resource] : Culture and Contexts /
Monahan, Barry.editor.
The volume offers a broad range of academic approaches to contemporary and historical Irish filmmaking and representations of nationality, national identity, and theoretical questions around the construction of Ireland and Irishness on the screen.
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Includes bibliographical references, filmographies and index.
The volume offers a broad range of academic approaches to contemporary and historical Irish filmmaking and representations of nationality, national identity, and theoretical questions around the construction of Ireland and Irishness on the screen.
Introduction / Barry Monahan -- Politics of home, space and place. "Nothin but a wee humble cottage": at home in Irish cinema / Conn Holohan -- Gangland geometries: space, mobility and transgression in the Veronica Guerin films / Jenny Knell -- "Don't use your own accents!": representations of Dublin's accents in contemporary film / Nicholas O'Riordan -- Beyond horror: surviving abuse in Carmel winters' snap / Kathleen Vejvoda -- Identities of gender and stardom. Black and white and green all over? emergent Irish female stardom in contemporary popular cinemas / Ciara Barrett -- Transcending parochial borders? Jonathan Rhys Meyers is Henry VIII / Liz Carville -- Old and new Irish ethnics: exploring ethnic and gender representation in P.S. I love you / Silvia Dibeltulo -- Mediating between his & hers: an exploration of gender representations and self-representations / Patricia Neville -- Northern Ireland. From Belfast to Bamako: cinema in the era of capitalist realism / Stephen Baker and Greg McLaughlin -- "Many sides, many truths": collaborative filmmaking in transitional Northern Ireland / Laura Aguiar -- The suffering male body in Steve McQueen's Hunger / Raita Merivirta -- Mickybo and me: a cinematographic adaptation for an international audience / Brigitte Bastiat -- Overseas perspectives. Singing in the rain: the Irish-themed film musical and Schlager's Hibernian moment / Fergal Lenehan -- Irish cinema: a French perspective / Isabelle Le Corff -- Is adaptation an act of transformation? J.B. Keane's The field on screen / Noélia Borges -- Irish cinema in Italy: the Roma Irish film festa / Ciara Chambers and Barry Monahan.
Motion pictures—History.
Communication.
Motion pictures and television.
Motion pictures—Great Britain.
Film History.
Media Studies.
Screen Studies.
British Cinema and TV.