Browsing by Subject "Film studies"
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"Ar son an Naisiuin": The National Film Institute of Ireland's All-Ireland Films
(Irish-American Cultural Institute, 2013)On 4 September 1948 the Irish Independent newspaper carried a small announcement on page ten indicating that the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) had authorized the filming of the All-Ireland hurling and football finals ... -
Balance, binary debate and missing women: a discourse analysis and creative response to 30 years of the abortion debate on RTÉ current affairs television, 1983-2013
(2017-02-23)Since the introduction of a foetal right to life into the Irish Constitution in 1983, abortion has persisted as a contentious issue in public debate in Ireland. This practice-based study investigates Irish public discourse ... -
Chance and Change
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Contemporary Irish film: An introduction
(Braumüller, 2011)(Introduction to collection CONTEMPORARY IRISH FILM: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON A NATIONAL CINEMA) The title of this paper is deliberately ambiguous. It is not only meant as an introduction to this collection, but also as a very ... -
Cultural glocalization or resistance? Interrogating the production of YouTube videos at an Irish summer college through practice-based research
(2017-03)This thesis includes the film Dúshlán Lurgan/The Lurgan Challenge and a written exegesis which reflects on the film's 'generative performance'. The film asks if making Irish-language versions of music videos in English at ... -
Disability, deficiency and excess: a critical re-examination of the construction, production and representations of physical disability in contemporary European film
(2014-06-26)This thesis critically investigates three contemporary European disability films to examine how representation and metaphor are used to present physical disability as deficient in comparison with the able-bodied ideal. The ... -
Equally existing objects: Tracing the emergence of non-hierarchical being through film and Occupy Wall Street
(NUI Galway, 2017-04-06)This project aims to trace the emergence of a non-hierarchical being, from 1999 to roughly 2013. The type of being under discussion is one that allows for all things to equally exist, outside of a human-world correlation, ... -
“For the honour of old Knock-na-gow I must win”: Representing Sport in Knocknagow (1918)
(2012)Knocknagow (1918) has a special significance for followers of sport in Ireland.[1] Most immediately, it contains one of the earliest surviving depictions of hurling on film—and hurling’s earliest depiction in a fiction ... -
From Babe Ruth to Michael Jordan: Affirming the American Dream via the Sports/Film Star
(University of Waterloo, Department of Fine Arts (Film Studies), 2014)In the United States, sport stars have provided crucial affirmation of the American Dream ideology despite the considerable evidence that questions the validity and appropriateness of this belief for understandings of ... -
Gaelic Games and 'the Movies'
(Irish Academic Press, 2009)From the earliest days of the cinema, sport was one of the most popular subjects of representation. Unsurprisingly, when film arrived in Ireland, Irish sport, including gaelic games, would soon feature. Gaelic games were ... -
The Gothic in David Lynch: phantasmagoria and abjection
(2010)David Lynch has long been identified with 'New American Gothic', a late capitalist cinematography that disrupts the glossy normalcy of the American dream with visions of violent menace, and physical and sexual aberrancy. ... -
Horror, hurling, and Bertie: aspects of contemporary Irish horror cinema
(University of Waterloo, Department of Fine Arts (Film Studies), 2012)In Ireland, generic international cinematic forms have provided an important means through which filmmakers have attempted to tell Irish stories while engaging international audiences. However, in general Irish filmmakers ... -
“If Irish cinema is going to be really great it has to stop worrying too much about being ‘Irish cinema’”: Q & A with Lenny Abrahamson and Mark O’Halloran
(Braumüller, 2011)Director Lenny Abrahamson and screenwriter and actor Mark O'Halloran have established a formidable partnership in recent years that has produced some of the most distinctive and celebrated work to emerge in Irish cinema. ... -
Irish intolerance: exploring its roots in Irish cinema
(Braumüller, 2011)This article examines the depiction of intolerance in Irish film just before and during the Celtic Tiger period itself, usually associated with the years 1995–2007. In particular, the paper is concerned with exploring how ... -
The Palestine Solidarity Movement in Ireland and the UK: mediating and framing Palestine online
(2016-09-19)This research explores the Palestine Solidarity Movement’s contemporary collective action in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland and the impact of online media on the dynamics of the movement’s activism. It does ... -
Personajes Femeninos Contestatarios del Cine Mexicano del siglo XXI: Subvirtiendo la Epoca de Oro
(2012-09-28)El cine mexicano de los últimos años ha vuelto a captar la atención del mercado internacional. Puede verse en éste una marcada tendencia a la universalidad de temas y una vigencia en cuanto a los cambios propios de la era ... -
The Quiet Man and Beyond: An Introduction
(Liffey Press, 2009)In 1996, The Quiet Man topped an Irish Times poll for the best Irish film of all time. Almost ten years later, with many more Irish (and Irish-themed) films made, The Quiet Man still occupied number four in a poll of 10,000 ... -
Reimagining an Irish City: I am Belfast
(Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses, Spanish Association for Irish Studies (AEDEI), 2017-03)An early shot in Mark Cousin's I am Belfast lingers on a very unusual and unexpected landscape, what appears to be an icy vista reflected in water, with clouds drifting by in the distance. Where s this our narrator asks. ... -
Shillalah Swing Time ...You'll thrill each time a wild Irishman s skull shatters : Representing Hurling in American Cinema: 1930-1960
(Irish Academic Press, 2009)While significant research has been done over the past twenty years on the important role Gaelic games and their promotion played in the construction and development of Irish nationalism and Irish identity, particularly ... -
Speaking Directly
(2010)