Contemporary Irish cinema : from The quiet man to Dancing at Lughnasa / edited by James MacKillop.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

MacKillop, James.

Series:

Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)

Irish studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Ireland.

Motion pictures.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

xiv, 290 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press, 1999.

Summary:

At a time when national cinemas in France and Japan have been marginalized on world screens, movies from and about Ireland have attracted huge audiences, capturing top international prizes (The Crying Game) and an Academy Award (My Left Foot).

In Contemporary Irish Cinema, James MacKillop and contributors take a variety of approaches to the treatment of films and film makers. Some contributors are journalists and critics; others are young scholars well grounded in current cinematic and literary theory.

Authors probe cinema's rewriting of Irish history, from the controversial Michael Collins and In the Name of the Father to playwright Stewart Parker's overlooked miniseries on Ulster sectarianism, Lost Belongings. Jim Loter brings the writings of Martin Heidegger to bear on Cathal Black's dark comedy, Pigs. Attitudes toward the institutional church are revealed in Playboys; among the films that figure into Pamela Dolan's work is An Elephant in the Sacristy.

Anthony Kirby and MacKillop's up-to-date filmography of Irish and Irish-related films is the most extensive yet published.

Contents:

1. Shamrocks and Shillelaghs: Idyll and Ideology in Irish Cinema / Harlan Kennedy 1

2. Poetic Documentary: The Films of John T. Davis / Kathleen McCracken 11

3. History Without Borders: Neil Jordan's Michael Collins / Brian McIlroy 22

4. "The Past Is Always There in the Present": Fools of Fortune and the Heritage Film / John Hill 29

5. December Bride: A Landscape Peopled Differently / Martin McLoone 40

6. Revising Resistance: In the Name of the Father as Postcolonial Paternal Melodrama / Margot Gayle Backus 54

7. "Different Countries, Different Worlds": The Representation of Northern Ireland in Stewart Parker's Lost Belongings / Jennifer C Cornell 71

8. "I Kinda Liked You as a Girl": Masculinity, Postcolonial Queens, and the "Nature" of Terrorism in Neil Jordan's The Crying Game / Maria Pramaggiore 85

9. Neil Jordan's Miracle: From Fiction to Film / Kathleen Gallagher Winarski 98

10. Man's Mythic Journey and the Female Principle in My Left Foot / Douglas Brode 109

11. Huston and Joyce: Bringing "The Dead" to the Screen / Moylan C. Mills 120

12. Cathal Black's Pigs: Ambivalence, Confinement, and the Search for an Irish Sense of Place / Jim Loter 128

13. An Elephant at the Altar: Religion in Contemporary Irish Cinema / Pamela Dolan 139

14. Cinematic Images of Irish Male Brutality and the Semiotics of Landscape in The Field and Hear My Song / Kerstin Ketteman 153

15. Synge on Film: Two Playboys / Sanford Sternlicht 161

16. The Quiet Man Speaks / James MacKillop 169

17. Selected Filmography of Irish and Irish-Related Feature Films / Anthony Kirby, James MacKillop 182.

Notes:

Filmography: page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

081562798X

0815605684

OCLC:

40510470