Cinema and Northern Ireland : film, culture and politics / John Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, John

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture industry--Northern Ireland.

Motion picture industry.

Motion pictures.

Politics in motion pictures.

Northern Ireland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2023.

Place of Publication:

London : British Film Institute, 2006.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

Traces the history of film production in Northern Ireland from the beginnings of a local film industry in the 1920s and 1930s, when the first Northern Irish 'quota quickies' were made, through the propaganda films of the 1940s and 1950s and on to the cinema of the 'Troubles'.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. 'Ulster must be made soft and romantic': Northern Ireland Film-making in the 1920s and 1930s

2. 'Ulster will fight again': Cinema and Censorship in the 1930s

3. 'Ulster at Arms': Film and the Second World War

4. 'What ideas and beliefs concerning Ulster'?: The Struggle Over Film Images in the Postwar Period

5. 'Go-ahead Ulster': Film, Modernisation and the Return of the Repressed

6. From 'propaganda for the arts' to 'the most powerful industry in the world': Film Policy, Economics and Culture

7. 'It's chaos out there': Changing Representations of the 'Troubles'

Select Bibliography

Index

List of Illustrations

eCopyright.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781838715007

1838715002

9781838711238

1838711236

9781838714994

1838714995

OCLC:

1182876229