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PublisherSyracuse University Press

ISBN-100815605684

ISBN-139780815605683

eBay Product ID (ePID)523257

Product Key Features

Number of Pages256 Pages

Publication NameContemporary Irish Cinema

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1999

SubjectFilm / History & Criticism, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaDrama, Performing Arts

AuthorJames Mackillop

SeriesIrish Studies

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight15 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN98-052456

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal791.43/09417

SynopsisMovies from and about Ireland have attracted huge audiences, capturing top international prizes (""The Crying Game"") and an Academy Award (""My Left Foot""). In this text, contributors take a variety of approaches to the treatment of films and film makers., Movies from and about Ireland have attracted huge augiences, capturing top international prizes (The Crying Game) and an Academy Award (My Left Foot). In this text, contributors take a variety of approaches to the treatment of films and film makers. They probe cinema's rewriting of Irish history, from Michael Collins and In the Name of the Father to Lost Beginnings., At a time when national cinemas in France and Japan have been marginalized on world screens, movies from and about Ireland have attracted huge audiences and captured top international prizes (The Crying Game) , including an Academy Award (My Left Foot) . In C ontemporary Irish Cinema, James MacKillop takes a variety of approaches in the treatment of films and film makers. Essayists, like Harlan Kennedy, John Hill, Martin McLoon, and Brian Mcilroy, represent leading journalists and critics; other contributors include young scholars well grounded in current cinematic and literary theory. The authors probe cinema's rewriting of Irish history, from the controversial Michael Collin s and In the Name of the Father to playwright Stewart Parker's overlooked miniseries on Ulster sectarianism, Lost Belongings. Jim Loter brings the writings of Martin Heidegger to bear on Cathal Black's dark comedy, Pigs. Attitudes toward the institutional church are revealed in Pamela Dolan's analysis of Playboys.

LC Classification NumberPN1993.5.I85C66 1999