Contemporary Irish cinema : from The quiet man to Dancing at Lughnasa / edited by James MacKillop
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| Subjects: | Motion pictures--Ireland |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Published: | Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1999 |
| Series: | Irish studies Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.) |
| LC Classification: | P, PN |
| Table of Contents: | Preface Contributors 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 235 Bibliography 245 Index 251 |
| Additional Authors: | MacKillop, James |
| Notes: | LCCN: 98052456 ISBN: 081562798X (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN: 0815605684 (paper : alk. paper) Filmography: p. 182-231 Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-250) and index |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 290 p. ; 23 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 40510470 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 081562798X 0815605684 |