Film, Media and Popular Culture in Ireland Cityscapes, Landscapes, Soundscapes

by McLoone, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780716529354
• ISBN10: 0716529351
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Irish Academic Press

Summary

A collection covering a wide variety of media in Ireland, including broadcasting, film, popular music, radio, and popular culture. Together, these essays map out the role various media have played in the process of 're-imagining Ireland' over the last fifteen years, touching on aspects of Irish cultural identity and the (re)construction of notions of Irishness. The book addresses the more contemporary implications of both the peace process in Northern Ireland and the 'Celtic Tiger' phenomenon in the South. Contents include: Introduction: The Changing Configurations of Irish Studies (1990-2005); Boxed-in?: The Aesthetics of Film and Television --- Section One: Irish Film. National Cinema and Cultural Identity; Maureen O'Hara: The Political Power of the Feisty Colleen; A Landscape Peopled Differently: Thaddeus O'Sullivan's 'December Bride'; Cinema and the City: Re-imagining Belfast and Dublin; Challenging Colonial Traditions: British Cinema in the Celtic Fringe --- Section Two: Irish Broadcasting. 'Music Hall Dope and British Propaganda': Cultural Identity and Early Broadcasting in Ireland; The City and the Working Class on Irish Television; Broadcasting in a Divided Community: The BBC in Northern Ireland; Drama out of a Crisis: Television Drama and the Troubles; The Elect and the Abject: Representing Protestant Culture; Irish Popular Music; Hybridity and National Musics: The Case of Irish Rock Music (with Noel McLaughlin); Punk Music in Ireland: The Political Power of 'What-Might-Have-Been' --- Conclusion: Popular Culture and Social Change.Ã?Â?Ã?Â?

Author Biography

Martin McLoone is Professor of Media Studies (Film, Television, and Photography) in the Centre for Media Research at the University of Ulster, Coleraine.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction: An Irish Monument in a Foreign Field: The Changing Configurations of Irish Studies 1900-2005	p. 1
Strumpet City in Post-modern Times: The Return of the Oppressed?	p. 9
Cinema, City and Imaginative Space: 'Hip Hedonism' and Recent Irish Cinema	p. 37
Topographies of Terror and Taste: The Reimagining of Belfast in Recent Cinema	p. 51
Celtic Cities, Celtic Landscapes	p. 68
Haunted Landscapes and the Irish West	p. 79
December Bride: A Landscape Peopled Differently	p. 96
Settling Old Scores? Religion, Secularisation and Recent Irish Cinema	p. 111
The Political Power of the Feisty Colleen: Contradiction in the Screen Persona of Maureen O'Hara	p. 127
Irish Soundscapes: Hybridity and National Musics (with Noel McLaughlin)	p. 143
Rootedness and Transcendence: Van Morrison's Belfast	p. 165
Irish Soundscapes: Punk Music and the Political Power of 'What-Might-Have-Been'	p. 173
Representing the Unionists	p. 187
Bibliography	p. 205
Index	p. 210
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