Irish National Cinema

ISBN-13: 9780415278959 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 224 str.

Ruth Barton;Barton Ruth

Opis

From the international successes of Neil Jordan and Jim Sheridan, to the smaller productions of the new generation of Irish filmmakers, the recent flowering of Irish cinema may be seen as a symbol of the nation's emergence from the backwaters of twentieth century culture into the mainstream of the global economy. In a country where the modern has been long regarded as a source of suspicion, cinema has occupied a fraught position within Irish society. Attacked by the Church for its detrimental influence on the faithful, regarded by the left as a tool of capitalism and by the Republican movement as a weapon of imperialism, it provided the battleground for the competing discourses within the emergent State during the early years of the twentieth century. At the same time, for the emigrant Irish, particularly of Britain and America, the cinema articulated, responded to and fashioned their experiences of departure and arrival.Irish National Cinema argues that in order to understand the unique position of filmmaking in Ireland and the inheritance on which contemporary filmmakers draw, definitions of the Irish culture and identity must take into account the so-called Irish diaspora and en

Recenzje

'Barton writes with authority and relish, this is an intelligent and insightful contribution to the growing corpus of scholarship in Irish Film' - The Irish Times

'Ruth Barton demonstrates an utter mastery of the Irish film field. I learned so much from reading this book' - Professor Nick Cull, University of Leicester, UK

Spis treści

Part 1 From the Silent Era to the 1960s: A Historical Overview; Chapter 1 Irish Cinema – National Cinema?; Chapter 2 A Silent Revolution; Chapter 3 Contested Images; Chapter 4 Negotiating Modernisation; Part 2 Issues and Debates in Contemporary Irish Cinema; Chapter 5 Irish Independents; Chapter 6 The Second Film Board Years; Chapter 7 The Deflowering of Irish Cinema; Chapter 8 Another Country; Chapter 9 From History to Heritage; Chapter 10 Northern Ireland; Chapter 11 Inclusion, Exclusion, Conclusion;

O autorze

Barton, Ruth