Keeping it real : Irish film and television / edited by Ruth Barton and Harvey O'Brien.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barton, Ruth.

O'Brien, Harvey.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Ireland.

Motion pictures.

Television--Social aspects.

Television.

Motion pictures--Social aspects.

Ireland.

Motion pictures, Irish.

Television--Ireland.

Irish in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Social aspects--Ireland.

Television--Social aspects--Ireland.

Physical Description:

x, 210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Wallflower, 2004.

Summary:

This timely collection of essays considers the nature and direction of Irish film and television, and also explores the contributions of other media including radio and the internet to contemporary Irish culture. It includes topics such as the first Irish-language soap opera, the new Irish gangsters, Irish identity post-11 September, images of Belfast in recent Irish film, female punishment in Irish history and culture, and print and radio coverage of the 'Roy Keane' affair as a proving ground for new Irish masculinity. Keeping it Real reflects a desire to hear new voices on new topics, as well as a current popular and academic desire to extend the notion of Irishness to include not just the inhabitants of the State but also the wider diaspora - particularly of Great Britain and North America, questioning issues of national identity and ethnicity - and is therefore required reading for those interested in Irish film, media and cultural studies. Films discussed include The Crying Game, Veronica Guerin, Gangs of New York, Disco Pigs, Odd Man Out, The Boxer, Nothing Personal, I Went Down and Resurrection Man. Also featured is an exclusive interview with actor Stephen Rea.

Contents:

Part 1 Real histories, new myths?

The Prisoner's Wife and the Soldier's Whore: Female Punishment in Irish History and Culture / Elizabeth Butler Cullingford 8

'We're not fucking Eye-talians': The Gangster Genre and Irish Cinema / Lance Pettitt 25

Black and White and Collar Films: Exploring the Irish Film Archive Collections of Clerical Films / Sunniva O'Flynn 39

Part 2 Real lives: modern irish identities

Irishness, Innocence and American Identity Politics Before and After 11 September / Diane Negra 54

Exodus, Arrival and Return: The Generic Discourse of Irish Diasporic and Exilic Narrative Films / Brian Mcllroy 69

Vampire Troubles: Loyalism and Resurrection Man / Steve Baker 78

Part 3 Real stories: narratives in fiction and non-fiction

Telling Tales: Narrative, Evidence and Memory in Contemporary Documentary Film Practice / Desmond Bell 88

Telling Our Story: Recording Audiovisual Testimonies from Political Conflict / Cahal McLaughlin 100

Hyperlinks, Changelings and the Digital Fireside / Paul O'Brien 111

The Boy from Mercury: Educating Emotionally through Universal Storytelling / Diog O'Connell 121

Part 4 Real places: navigating visual spaces

Topographies of Terror and Taste: the Re-imagining of Belfast in Recent Cinema / Martin McLoone 134

Pobal Sobail: Ros na Run, TG4 and Reality / Ruth Lysaght 147

'A Taxi from The West': The Ireland Text in Yves Boisset's Le Taxi mauve/The Purple Taxi / Paula Gilligan 159

Part 5 Real paradigms: conceptualising the national

Preparing to Fail: Gender, Consumption, Play and National Identity in Irish Broadcast Media Coverage of the 'Roy Keane affair' and the 2002 World Cup / Marcus Free 172

Keeping it Imaginary, Cultivating the Symbolic / Barry Monahan 185

Appendix Interview with Stephen Rea 198.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Filmography: pages 202-205.

ISBN:

1903364949

1903364957

OCLC:

56454831