Browsing Huston School of Film and Digital Media by Title
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Chance and Change
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Configuring Irishness through coaching films: Peil (1962) and Christy Ring (1964)
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-07-12)The sports coaching film has a long history, dating from at least 1932 with the production of Paulette McDonagh s How I Play Cricket which featured the legendary Don Bradman. However, coaching films dedicated to indigenous ... -
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 ... -
'Croke Park goes Plumb Crazy' Gaelic Games in Pathé Newsreels, 1920–1939
(Taylor and Francis, 2011)From the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922, and over the next two decades, arose great efforts in Ireland to augment political independence from Britain with enhanced cultural separation. During this period the ... -
Defining the heathen Irish and the pagan African: two similar discourses a century apart
(2008)This article looks at two different missionary projects separated by space and time: British Protestant missions to Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century; and Irish Roman Catholic missions to Africa in the 1920 and 1930s. ... -
Don’t Look: Representations of Horror in the Twenty-First-Century Symposium, University of Edinburgh, 28 April 2018
(Intellect, 2018-10-01)Review of Don't Look: Representations of Horror in the Twenty-First-Century Symposium, University of Edinburgh, 28 April 2018 -
European cinema and the football film: ‘Play for the people who’ve accepted you’
(Routledge, 2021-05-18)This chapter examines the place of association football in European cinema. Sport cinema has been among the most enduring, popular, and critically acclaimed of genres within American cinema; however, limited research has ... -
Exploring European sporting identities: history, theory, methodology ,
(Peter Lang, 2010)This collaborative study (an introduction to the collection Sport, Representation, and Evolving Identities in Europe) is intended to contribute to the ongoing elucidation of the role of sport in the processes of identity ... -
Fairytale and Gothic Horror: Uncanny Transformations in Film, Laura Hubner (2018)
(Intellect, 2020-04-01)Review of: Fairytale and Gothic Horror: Uncanny Transformations in Film, Laura Hubner (2018), London: Palgrave Macmillan, 206 pp., -
Folk horror in the twenty-first century
(Irish Gothic Journal, School of English, Trinity College Dublin, 2020)Casey highlights the Folk Horror in the Twenty-First Century conference at Falmouth University. The conference was a two-day multidisciplinary exploration and interconnected discussion of this new and vibrant facet of ... -
“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 ... -
From Kings to Cáca Mílis: Irish film and television as Gaeilge in 2007
(2007)A review of recent trends in Irish language television and film, including a consideration of the films Cré na Cille (Graveyard Clay) (2007), Kings (2007) and the TV series "Paddywhackery" (2007) and "The Running Mate" (2007). -
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 ... -
Gaelic games and the films of John Ford
(Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2018-02-27)This peer-reviewed chapter emerged further to ongoing research into the representations of Gaelic games in the cinema and is focused on films directed, or part-directed, by John Ford, in particular The Quiet Man (1952), ... -
Girl chewing gum: the time that cinema forgot
(Intellect / Ingenta Connect, 2012-02)John Smith's Girl Chewing Gum was made in Hackney, East London and shown at the London Film-Makers' Co-op in 1976. Through its wit and imagination this film extended the forms of British avant-garde experimentation that ... -
The Given Note traditional music, crisis and the poetry of Seamus Heaney
(Palgrave, 2011)This paper proposes that at a time when Northern Ireland increasingly descended into civil strife and crisis, Seamus Heaney looked to landscape, and to a lesser but comparable, extent traditional music, to articulate a ... -
"The Given Note": traditional music and modern Irish poetry
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008)"The oldest records indicate that the performance of poetry in Gaelic Ireland was normally accompanied by music, providing a point of continuity with past tradition while bolstering a sense of community in the present. ... -
Global Interchange: The Same but Different
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013-08)Praxis is a productive basis for international interchange the diversity and pluralism of critical practice offers an implicit challenge to dominant models. The replication of versions of academic tunnel vision is too ...