Browsing Huston School of Film and Digital Media (Book Chapters) by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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), ... -
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 ... -
“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. ... -
‘Introduction’ In: Crisis and Contemporary Poetry
(Palgrave, 2011)This collection of essays addresses poetic and critical responses to the various crises encountered by contemporary writers and our society. The essays included discuss a range of issues from the holocaust, the Troubles ... -
Ireland and Biafra: hunger, history, politics and public opinion
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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 ... -
An Irish Missionary in India: Thomas Gavan Duffy and the Catechist of Kil-Arni
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Locative reverb: Artistic practice, sound technology, and the grammatization of the listener in the city
(Springer International Publishing, 2021)There are various ways that artists use technology in exploring the relation of sound to the urban environment, which has different impacts on the listener in relation to place. The rising prominence of these works is ... -
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill: Reclaiming women's voice from song
(University of Sunderland Press, 2005)Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill is one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Irish literature. Her work, drawing on Irish mythology, folklore and orature has also attracted considerable international acclaim and has been ... -
Performances of situated knowledge in the ageing female body
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2017-11-25)Kathleen Woodward describes how the ageing female body is both hyper-visible and invisible: mass media representations tend to regulate expectations for how women are to behave as they age while rendering them obsolete and ... -
Performing pregnant: An aesthetic investigation of pregnancy
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018-02-17)In this chapter, I explore how the aesthetics of pregnancy and childbirth offers a platform for exploring the pregnant body in the cultural consciousness by building on Iris Marion Young’s phenomenological understanding ... -
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 ... -
The sea of orality: An introduction to orality and modern Irish culture
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009)[Introduction to the collection Anáil an Bhéil Bheo: Orality and Modern Irish Culture (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009)] While the connections between oral and textual traditions in Ireland have been the focus of much ... -
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 ... -
Sport and Christianity in American cinema ‘The beloved grew fat and kicked’ (Deuteronomy 32:15)
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2017-10-21)Christianity has been an enduring feature of films featuring sports or sporting figures since the early twentieth century, such that religious icons, references and rituals have now become naturalised as familiar and ...