The myth of an Irish cinema
Subtitle: approaching Irish-themed films
By: Michael Patrick Gillespie.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Irish studies
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780815631682; 9780815631934
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Ireland
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is to be done?; title: Latent metrosexuality: the erasure of Irish identity in middle-class cinema; title: Urban legends : the survival of working-class films; title: Down on the farm : the calcification of Irish rural drama; title: Suffer the little children : reconstructions of the family; title: In the name of the father : images of religious beliefs; title: The struggle for independence in Irish political films.