Ireland and cinema : culture and contexts / [editor] Barry Monahan, University College Cork, Ireland.
| Other author | Monahan, Barry, editor. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Abstract | 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. The first part explores notions of home, space and place as they have been mobilized politically through representations of Irishness. Regional specificities are brought to the fore in explorations of disturbing and dystopian notions of home, the generic use of Dublin city, and the employment of Irish accents in cinema. The second part considers the intricacies of identity representations in cinema. In four chapters it brings together the theme of national identity with questions of gender, sexuality, and stardom. The third part concentrates on films based in, representing or challenging the political and historical situation of Northern Ireland. The final part focuses on Ireland's relationship with international aesthetics and considerations of cinema, from mainstream generic to the perspectives of Irish cinema by overseas audiences. The material explored - the films chosen and the analytical writing invoked - is diverse and innovatively read through a miscellany of methodological approaches. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Bibliography note | Includes filmography. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Ireland and cinema 9781137496355 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| ISBN | 9781137496362 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1137496363 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9781137496379 |
| ISBN | 1137496371 |
| ISBN | 1137496355 |
| ISBN | 9781137496355 |
| Standard identifier# | 10.1057/9781137496362 |
| Stock number | 818442 Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgraveconnect.com |
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