Genre and Cinema: Ireland and TransnationalismBrian McIlroy Routledge, 2012 M08 6 - 304 páginas This impressive volume takes a broad critical look at Irish and Irish-related cinema through the lens of genre theory and criticism. Secondary and related objectives of the book are to cover key genres and sub-genres and account for their popularity. The result offers new ways of looking at Irish cinema. |
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... of the intellectual task attempted here. This book of essays has three main objectives: to begin a discussion of ... ofthe films made? To what extent have Irish filmmakers happily “gone Hollywood,” and to what extent have they sought ...
... of the intellectual task attempted here. This book of essays has three main objectives: to begin a discussion of ... ofthe films made? To what extent have Irish filmmakers happily “gone Hollywood,” and to what extent have they sought ...
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... ofthe running jokes of The Fifth Province, and this waving goodbye to the past is eerily confirmed by Joan FitzPatrick Dean who argues, in her chapter, “Opening the Peasant Play: Friel on Film,” that even successful play material, as in ...
... ofthe running jokes of The Fifth Province, and this waving goodbye to the past is eerily confirmed by Joan FitzPatrick Dean who argues, in her chapter, “Opening the Peasant Play: Friel on Film,” that even successful play material, as in ...
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... of the generic itself. Rethinking the “national,” however, has taken somewhat contrary directions. Recognition ofthe historical prominence and increasing inevitability not only of international coproduction but also of the cross-border ...
... of the generic itself. Rethinking the “national,” however, has taken somewhat contrary directions. Recognition ofthe historical prominence and increasing inevitability not only of international coproduction but also of the cross-border ...
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... of the gangster and the ghoulish despair of the vampire—because it cuts both off from their shared roots in melodrama. As ... ofthe founding definitions of genre as a shared agreement between filmmakers and audiences, which has largely ...
... of the gangster and the ghoulish despair of the vampire—because it cuts both off from their shared roots in melodrama. As ... ofthe founding definitions of genre as a shared agreement between filmmakers and audiences, which has largely ...
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... ofthe national and generic. On the one hand, post-68 film theory has worked with a conception of Hollywood as an inherently conservative classical narrative cinema to be opposed by counter-narrational and antigeneric strategies ofthe ...
... ofthe national and generic. On the one hand, post-68 film theory has worked with a conception of Hollywood as an inherently conservative classical narrative cinema to be opposed by counter-narrational and antigeneric strategies ofthe ...
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PART II Genre Ireland and Hollywood | 59 |
PART III Transnational and transformational contexts | 109 |
PART IV Genre and the Irish short film | 149 |
PART V Jordan gothic horror | 177 |
PART VI Genre and the city film | 203 |
PART VII Northern Irish commemorative cinema | 231 |
Contributors | 273 |
Index | 277 |
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