Keeping It Real Irish Film and Television
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Keeping It Real Irish Film and Television by Ruth Barton
This timely collection of essays considers the nature and direction of Irish film and television, and also explores the contributions of other media including radio and the internet to contemporary Irish culture. It includes topics such as the first Irish-language soap opera, the new Irish gangsters, Irish identity post-11 September, images of Belfast in recent Irish film, female punishment in Irish history and culture, and print and radio coverage of the `Roy Keane affair' as a proving ground for new Irish masculinity. Keeping it Real: Irish Film and Television reflects a desire to hear new voices on new topics, as well as a current popular and academic desire to extend the notion of Irishness to include not just the inhabitants of the State but also the wider diaspora - particularly of Great Britain and North America, questioning issues of national identity and ethnicity - and is therefore required reading for those interested in Irish film, media and cultural studies.
Ruth Barton and Harvey O'Brien are Irish Council for Humanities and Social Sciences postdoctoral research fellows working at the center for film studies at University College Dublin. Barton is the author of Jim Sheridan: Framing the Nation (2002) and the forthcoming The Real Ireland: The Evolution of Ireland in Documentary Film.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781903364949 |
| ISBN 10 | 1903364949 |
| Title | Keeping It Real Irish Film and Television |
| Author | Ruth Barton |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Wallflower Press |
| Year published | 2004-09-15 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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