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Irish National Cinema (Hardcover)
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Irish National Cinema (Hardcover)
Series: National Cinemas
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From the international successes of Neil Jordan and Jim Sheridan,
to the smaller productions of the new generation of Irish
filmmakers, the recent flowering of Irish cinema may be seen as a
symbol of the nation's emergence from the backwaters of twentieth
century culture into the mainstream of the global economy. In a
country where the modern has been long regarded as a source of
suspicion, cinema has occupied a fraught position within Irish
society. Attacked by the Church for its detrimental influence on
the faithful, regarded by the left as a tool of capitalism and by
the Republican movement as a weapon of imperialism, it provided the
battleground for the competing discourses within the emergent State
during the early years of the twentieth century. At the same time,
for the emigrant Irish, particularly of Britain and America, the
cinema articulated, responded to and fashioned their experiences of
departure and arrival.Irish National Cinema argues that in order to
understand the unique position of filmmaking in Ireland and the
inheritance on which contemporary filmmakers draw, definitions of
the Irish culture and identity must take into account the so-called
Irish diaspora and en
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