Screening Irish-America
Subtitle: [representing Irish-America in film and television]
By: edited by Ruth Barton.
Contributors: Barton, Ruth.
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Dublin; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
ISBN-13: 9780716529910; 9780716529927
Subjects: Irish Americans in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-409) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Ruth Barton; title: From the Nickelodeon to the front room: evolving stereotypes. The Irish migrant and film / Kevin Rockett; title: Abie's Irish enemy: Irish and Jews, social and political realities and media representations / Timothy J. Meagher; title: Female stardom and ethnicity. Funny girls: early American screen comediennes and ethnicity / Gwenda Young; title: The bowery Cinderella: gender, class and community in Irish-American film narrative / Christopher Shannon; title: Negotiating the stereotype. Irish Brother Feeney: Francis Ford in John Ford's films / Charles Barr; title: The Mick Irish turns federal agent: James Cagney, G-Men and ethnic masculinity / Anthony Burke Smith; title: Sport and spectatorship. Irish audiences watch their first US feature: The Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight (1897) / Denis Condon; title: '"Shillalah swing time"; title: you'll thrill each time a wild Irishman's skull shatters': representing hurling in American cinema: 1930-1960 / Seán Crosson; title: Religion and myth. Screening Saint Patrick / William L. Bradley; title: Going my way and Irish-American Catholicism: myth and reality / Lawrence J. McCaffrey; title: Trans-Atlantic journeys. Captain Lightfoot (1955): caught between a Rock (Hudson) and a rapparee / Tony Tracy; title: Projecting or protecting Ireland: the Department of External Affairs and Hollywood 1946-1960 / Roddy Flynn; title: Adventurers and explorers. 'Fall in with the Major': race, nation, class, and the Confederate Irish in Sam Peckinpah's Major Dundee (1965) / Paula Gilligan; title: Fitzcarraldo, Irish explorer / Mary Lawlor; title: Television: histories and fictions. 'We are proud of you': screening Kennedy in Ireland / Harvey O'Brien; title: Irishness, anger and masculinity in recent film and television / Diane Negra; title: Masculinity, performativity, comedy. Searching for the sub(genre): Irish-American film comedy / Brian McIlroy; title: 'The aul' divil': the appropriation of Irishness in Daredevil / Stephen Boyd; title: Defining ourselves through the Irishness we sell: the comedy of cultural commodification in Mark Joffe's The matchmaker (1997) / Barry Monahan; title: Filmmakers between America and Ireland. The blood of an Irishwoman: race and gender in The nephew and In America / Kathleen Vejvoda; title: Repositioning Irish-America: Neil Jordan's American-Irish and the value of interstice / Jenny O'Connor; title: Ireland's America: a case study of Sheridan's In America (2002) and Get rich or die tryin' (2005) / Pat Brereton; title: Interview with Jim Sheridan / Topny Tracy.