Authors: Ruth Barton (Editor), Harvey O'Brien
ISBN-13: 9781903364949, ISBN-10: 1903364949
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Date Published: September 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Ruth Barton and Harvey O'Brien are irish council for humanities and social sciences postdoctoral research fellows working at the center for film studies at University College Dublin. Barton is the author of Jim Sheridan: Framing the Nation (2002) and the forthcoming The Real Ireland: The Evolution of Ireland in Documentary Film.
A series of essays considering the nature and direction of Irish film and television. Films discussed include Odd Man Out, The Boxer, Nothing Personal, I Went Down, Ryan's Daughter and Resurrection Man.
Introduction | 1 | |
The prisoner's wife and the soldier's whore : female punishment in Irish history and culture | 8 | |
'We're not fucking Eye-talians' : the gangster genre and Irish cinema | 25 | |
Black and white and collar films : exploring the Irish film archive collections of clerical films | 39 | |
Irishness, innocence and American identity politics before and after 11 September | 54 | |
Exodus, arrival and return : the generic discourse of Irish diasporic and exilic narrative films | 69 | |
Vampire troubles : loyalism and Resurrection man | 78 | |
Telling tales : narrative, evidence and memory in contemporary documentary film practice | 88 | |
Telling our story : recording audiovisual testimonies from political conflict | 100 | |
Hyperlinks, changelings and the digital fireside | 111 | |
The boy from Mercury : educating emotionally through universal storytelling | 121 | |
Topographies of terror and taste : the re-imagining of Belfast in recent cinema | 134 | |
Pobal sobail : Ros na Run, TG4 and reality | 147 | |
'A taxi from the west' : the Ireland text in Yves Boisset's Le taxi mauve/The purple taxi | 159 | |
Preparing to fail : gender, consumption, play and national identity in Irish broadcast media coverage of the 'Roy Keane affair' and the 2002 World Cup | 172 | |
Keeping it imaginary, cultivating the symbolic | 185 | |
App | Interview with Stephen Rea | 198 |