Masculinity and Irish popular culture : tiger's tales / edited by Conn Holohan and Tony Tracy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holohan, Conn, editor.

Tracy, Tony, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Masculinity in popular culture--Ireland.

Masculinity in popular culture.

Masculinity in popular culture--Northern Ireland.

Men--Ireland--Identity.

Men.

Men--Northern Ireland--Identity.

Masculinity--Ireland.

Masculinity.

Masculinity--Northern Ireland.

Sex role--Ireland.

Sex role.

Sex role--Northern Ireland.

Masculinity--Social aspects--Ireland.

Masculinity--Social aspects--Northern Ireland.

Masculinity--Social aspects.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Northern Ireland.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

xi, 253 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture is an interdisciplinary collection of essays by established and emerging scholars, analysing the shifting representations of Irish men across a range of popular culture forms in the period of the Celtic Tiger and beyond. From the self-stylings of GAA star Paul Galvin to theatrical depictions of an Irish masculinity in crisis, the essays firmly situate these diverse images of Irish manhood within the social and cultural contexts that produced them. Taking as its overall context the social changes instigated by the economic boom of the 1990s, the book traces the effects of these changes on popular understandings of what it is to be an Irish male. Through insightful analyses of film, theatre, literature and more, the essays in this collection argue that Irish masculinity has become a more heterogeneous concept within this period, while critiquing the gender binaries that continue to structure Irish society and culture. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Tony Tracy and Conn Holohan

Part 1. Queering Irish masculinity. Clubs, closets and catwalks: GAA stars and the politics of contemporary Irish masculinity / Michael G. Cronin

Trans-formations of gendered identities in Ireland / Jeannine Woods

Compartmentalized cosmopolitans: constructions of urban space in queer Irish cinema / Allison Macleod

part 2. Musical masculinities. From men to boys: masculinity, politics and the Irish boy band / Noel McLaughlin and Martin McLoone

'Irish lads' and English rock: musical masculinities in the 1990s / Sean Campbell

'Oh, me, oh, my': masculinity, popular music and reviving Joe Dolan / Méabh Ní Fhuartháin

part 3. Masculinity in drama and literature. A postmodern crisis of Irish masculinity - Patrick McCabe's Winterwood (2006) / Annabel Sheehan

From violent masculinities to gynandricity? Sean O'Reilly's Watermark (2005) / Fiona McCann

Sons of the tiger: performing neoliberalism, post-feminism, and masculinity in 'crisis' in contemporary Irish theatre / Cormac O'Brien

Mirror mirror on the wall: unwanted reflections in The Boys of Foley Street (2012) / Miriam Haughton

part 4. Onscreen masculinity. Body of evidence: performing Hunger / Emilie Pine

Othering masculinity in the multicultural Irish thriller / Zélie Asava

From symbol to symptom - changing representations of fatherhood in recent Irish cinema / Ruth Barton

'He's a good soldier, he cares about the future': post-feminist masculinities, the IRA man and 'peace' in Northern Ireland / Sarah Edge

Pure male: masculine spaces and stasis in Eugene O'Brien's Pure Male (2005) / Barry Monahan

part 5. After the tiger: gender and economic crisis. Adjusting men and abiding mammies: gendering the recession in Ireland / Diane Negra

Further reading.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

113730023X

9781137300232

OCLC:

857967033