Browsing Huston School of Film and Digital Media (Book Chapters) by Title
Now showing items 1-20 of 27
-
1916 and Irish literature, culture and society: an introduction
(Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2015)1916 marked an important moment in the development of modern Ireland. The continuing resonance of the Republican Rising that took place in that year was evident in the now much quoted editorial of The Irish Times (18 Nov ... -
“All the better to see you with”: Found footage, camera consciousness and Deleuzian event in contemporary demon possession horror
(McFarland & Company, 2021)[No abstract available] -
‘All this must come to an end. Through talking’: Dialogue and Troubles Cinema
(Peter Lang, 2014)The Northern Ireland Troubles have featured in film since the late 1940s. While a variety of films have depicted combatants in most cases from the republican side a recurring trope in such representations has been the ... -
Anticipating a postnationalist Ireland: representing Gaelic Games in Rocky Road to Dublin (1968) and Clash of the Ash (1987)
(Peter Lang, 2010)This article charts the movement towards what might be called, following from Richard Kearney’s 1995 book, a post-nationalist approach to representing gaelic games in film, particularly since the late 1960s through an ... -
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
(Cambria Press, 2012)[No abstract available] -
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
(Irish Academic Press, 2006)[No abstract available] -
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 ...