Huston School of Film and Digital Media (Scholarly Articles)
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"Ar son an Naisiuin": The National Film Institute of Ireland's All-Ireland Films
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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. ... -
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. ... -
Horror, hurling, and Bertie: aspects of contemporary Irish horror cinema
(University of Waterloo, Department of Fine Arts (Film Studies), 2012)THIS GRAFFITI image(1) appeared in Dublin's Ranelagh district in June 2009. In its representation of a dejected looking Bertie Aherne combined with the distinctive and unmistakable markings of a particular animal, it ... -
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 ... -
“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 ... -
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 ... -
Irish short films: essential indigenous productions
(ROPES: Review Of Postgraduate Studies, 1995)of national questioning in the mid-1970s, short films have played an important role in Irish film culture. Not only did they offer Irish filmmakers an opportunity to learn their trade and establish themselves, but often ... -
'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 ... -
Sport and the media in Ireland: an introduction
(Taylor and Francis, 2011)The symbiotic relationship that has existed since the mid-19th century between sport and the media – from the popular press, through newsreels and radio, to television, and beyond – is so well established as hardly to ... -
The Theory of Film Practice: Thirty Years Later
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013)Jean-Luc Godard prefaced his exhibition Voyages en utopie with the explanation that it was an intimate voyage that is permeable to the world s upheavals; it is from the tension between these two poles: autobiographical ... -
Alexander Kluge: Utopian Cinema
(Rodopi, 2007-10-01)Alexander Kluge's films, television programmes and his other diverse activities contribute to a developed understanding of contemporary politics and culture. He took a version of creative critical theory into spheres of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Chance and Change
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Speaking Directly
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Review of "Pavee Lackeen" (2005)
(2006)