December bride
By: Lance Pettitt.
Contributors: Film Institute of Ireland.
Series: Ireland into film; 2
Publisher: Cork University Press in association with the Film Institute of Ireland
Published: 2001
Place of publication: [Sterling, Va.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 94
Subjects: Bell, Sam Hanna.; Bell, Sam Hanna -- Film and video adaptations.; December bride (Motion picture)
Description: "Sam Hanna Bell's debut novel (1951), about life in a tight-knit Presbyterian community in turn-of-the-century Northern Ireland, was adapted for the screen by David Rudkin and directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan in 1990." "Both as a novel and as a film, December Bride is a remarkable combination of passion and politics set against a rural backdrop of communal constraint and individual action. Visually and thematically the film is a timely reinvestigation of Ulster Protestant history and culture and, in particular, reclaims a tradition of radical independent thought exemplified by the work of Sam Hanna Bell." "Drawing on previously unpublished archival material and new interviews, Lance Pettitt explores the intricate relationship between novel, screenplay and the wider film culture. December Bride is a consummate and provocative challenge to the politics of Irish society, its cinematic representations and the very process of film adaptation itself."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-94).