Ireland's theatre on film
Subtitle: style, stories and the national stage on screen
By: Barry Monahan.
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Dublin, Ireland; Portland, Ore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780716528975; 9780716528968
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Ireland; Theater -- Ireland; Irish drama -- 20th century; Ireland -- In motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [262]-268) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Theatre, film and cultural adaptation; title: Early sound, performance and adaptation. Irish stage actors, filmed theatre and the apparatus of sound cinema; title: Sean O'Casey by Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford; title: John Millington Synge and Ireland / Brian Desmond Hurst; title: A middle period, performing theatre and national identity. The Abbey and state policy : a context for characterisation; title: National Theatre actors on screen; title: John Ford and the Abbey players; title: The Abbey and film companies; title: The Ardmore studios project. Behind the Emmet Dalton and National Theatre collaboration; title: Institutional interrogation of Irishness; title: Community films by the Abbey at Arndore.