Irish Films, Global Cinema Studies in Irish Film 4

by McLoone, Martin; Rockett, Kevin

• ISBN13: 9781846820816
• ISBN10: 1846820812
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-20
• Publisher: Four Courts Press

Summary

The fourth volume of papers from the Irish Postgraduate Film Research Seminar reflects the diversity, quality, and increasingly international nature of film research currently being undertaken in Ireland and about Ireland. These papers touch on a range of issues related to Irish, British, American, and world cinema, and consider questions of film form and aesthetics as well as key questions about representation. The keynote paper by one of the pioneering scholars in film studies, Charles Barr, reconsiders the hyphenated nature of John Ford's Irish-American identity and his innovative approach to Ford's complex cultural identity provides a challenging framework for the younger scholars' discussion of national and international cinemas.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 7
Film: Form, Aesthetics and Pedagogy
Irish film studies: twenty years on	p. 15
Sean Feeney to John Ford: a new angle on his authorship	p. 27
The woman sings: sound design and meaning in Hollywood cinema	p. 39
Beyond the spectacle: narratives of the videogame	p. 48
Children's naive theories of cinematic identification: a study of children's viewing of The Chronicles of Narnia: the lion, the witch and the wardrobe	p. 59
Practice-based PhD: a struggle against contemporary hierarchies?	p. 70
Imaging the unseen: some new directions in film and visual arts research	p. 78
Adaptation and remake: the sweet screen representation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	p. 87
Irish Items, Global Cinema
Caught in the Holy Cross fire: ethno-sectarian conflict in Ardoyne	p. 101
Radical conservatism in Patriot Games	p. 115
Time marches on: representations of 1930s Ireland in March of Time newsreels	p. 125
Trauma, narrative and subjectivity in Breakfast on Pluto	p. 140
From modernism to postmodernism: Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa	p. 150
Cymru's filmic pilgrimages 'up north': Northern Ireland as an obligatory 'Avalon' for Welsh filmmakers	p. 161
Mixed-race issues in American and French melodrama: an analysis of the Imitation of Life films (1934 and 1959) and Metisse (1993)	p. 171
Theme music in Chinese cinema: Visitors from the Ice Mountain (1963)	p. 181
Contributors	p. 189
Index	p. 191
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