At a time when national cinemas in France and Japan have been
marginalized on world screens, movies from and about Ireland have
attracted huge audiences, capturing top international prizes (The
Crying Game) and an Academy Award (My Left Foot).
In Contemporary Irish Cinema, James MacKillop and contributors
take a variety of approaches to the treatment of films and film
makers. Some contributors are journalists and critics; others are
young scholars well grounded in current cinematic and literary
theory.
Authors probe cinema's rewriting of Irish history, from the
controversial Michael Collins and In the Name of the Father to
playwright Stewart Parker's overlooked miniseries on Ulster
sectarianism, Lost Belongings. Jim Loter brings the writings of
Martin Heidegger to bear on Cathal Black's dark comedy, Pigs.
Attitudes toward the institutional church are revealed in Playboys;
among the films that figure into Pamela Dolan's work is An Elephant
in the Sacristy.
Anthony Kirby and MacKillop's up-to-date filmography of Irish
and Irish-related films is the most extensive yet published.
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