Ireland and Cinema

Culture and Contexts
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-49635-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4041 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Monahan, Barry

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors
Foreword; Martin McLoone
Introduction; Barry Monahan
PART I: POLITICS OF HOME, SPACE AND PLACE
1. ' 'Nothin ' ' But a Wee Humble Cottage ' ': At Home in Irish Cinema; Conn Holohan
2. Gangland Geometries: Space, Mobility and Transgression in the Veronica Guerin Films; Jenny Knell
3. ' 'Don ' 't Use Your Own Accents! ' ': Representations of Dublin ' 's Accents in Contemporary Film; Nicholas O ' 'Riordan
4. Beyond Horror: Surviving Abuse in Carmel Winters ' ' Snap; Kathleen Vejvoda
PART II: IDENTITIES OF GENDER AND STARDOM
5. Black and White and Green All Over? Emergent Irish Female Stardom in Contemporary Popular Cinemas; Ciara Barrett
6. Transcending Parochial Borders? Jonathan Rhys Meyers is Henry VIII; Liz Carville
7. Old and New Irish Ethnics: Exploring Ethnic and Gender Representation in P.S. I Love You; Silvia Dibeltulo
8. Mediating between His & Hers: An Exploration of Gender Representations and Self-Representations; Patricia Neville
PART III: NORTHERN IRELAND
9. From Belfast to Bamako: Cinema in the Era of Capitalist Realism; Stephen Baker and Greg McLaughlin
10. ' 'Many Sides, Many Truths ' ': Collaborative Filmmaking in Transitional Northern Ireland; Laura Aguiar
11. The Suffering Male Body in Steve McQueen ' 's Hunger; Raita Merivirta
12. Mickybo and Me: A Cinematographic Adaptation for an International Audience; Brigitte Bastiat
PART IV: OVERSEAS PERSPECTIVES
13. Singing in the Rain: The Irish-Themed Film Musical and Schlager ' 's Hibernian Moment; Fergal Lenehan
14. Irish Cinema: a French Perspective; Isabelle Le Corff
15. Is Adaptation an Act of Transformation? J.B. Keane ' 's The Field on Screen; Noélia Borges
16. Irish Cinema in Italy: the Roma Irish Film Festa; Ciara Chambers and Barry Monahan
Bibliography
Filmography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Aguiar, University College Cork, Ireland
Stephen Baker, Ulster University, UK
Ciara Barrett, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Brigitte Bastiat, University of La Rochelle, France
Noélia Borges, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
Liz Carville, NUI Maynooth, Ireland
Ciara Chambers, Ulster University, UK
Silvia Dibeltulo, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Conn Holohan, NUI Galway, Ireland
Jenny Knell, University College Dublin, Ireland
Isabelle Le Corff, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France
Fergal Lenehan, Friedrich Schiller University, Germany
Greg McLaughlin, Ulster University, UK
Martin McLoone, Ulster University, UK
Raita Merivirta, University of Turku, Finland
Barry Monahan, University College Cork, Ireland
Patricia Neville, University of Bristol, UK
Nicholas O'Riordan, University College Cork, Ireland
Kathleen Vejvoda, Bridgewater State University, USA