Viewpoints
Theoretical Perspectives on Irish Visual Texts
Published on 7. February 2013
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-1-85918-496-7 (ISBN)
Description
Over the last twenty years, Ireland has undergone significant transformation and, as a consequence, notions of Irish identity and nationality have been in constant flux. For this reason, it is a timely moment to consider visual representations, both past and present, of Irish cultural life, and contribute to conversations about questions such as: What kind of iconic currencies does Ireland have? How should we see them? Are there specific ideological frameworks operating when we imagine Ireland? Can we imagine Irishness differently? Viewpoints explores the ways in which visual texts engage with questions of Irish culture, and the manner in which those texts are received, circulated, and consumed. By way of recourse to a range of theoretical positions that include feminism, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, philosophy, and queer theory, the collection presents multiple and variegated perspectives on Irish texts, culture, society, and life.
With essays on theories of visualisation and early Irish photography, adaptation and memory in the diasporic image, identities in Irish photographic art, the advertising of therapeutic 'wellness' sites, as well as essays which read and focus Irish film and television 'differently', this book brings new critical readings to how we 'see' Irish culture.
With essays on theories of visualisation and early Irish photography, adaptation and memory in the diasporic image, identities in Irish photographic art, the advertising of therapeutic 'wellness' sites, as well as essays which read and focus Irish film and television 'differently', this book brings new critical readings to how we 'see' Irish culture.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cork
Ireland
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
612 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85918-496-7 (9781859184967)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Claire Bracken is at English Department, Union College, Schenectady, New York and Emma Radley is at UCD School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin
Content
Contents Introduction - Claire Bracken and Emma Radley Discourse Terra Infirma: The Territory of the Visible and the Writing of Ireland's Visual Culture - Justin Carville World-making in Thaddeus O'Sullivan's The Woman Who Married Clark Gable - Cheryl Herr The Phenomenological Narrative Shift between Lenny Abrahamson's Adam and Paul and Garage -Barry Monahan Fascinating States - Matthew Brown Finding a Voice: Irish-Language Film in the Twenty-First Century - Heather Macdougall Form Memory to Film: Reviving the Irish Diaspora in Stephen Frears' Liam - Emmie McFadden Violent Transpositions: The Disturbing 'Appearance' of the Irish Horror Film - Emma Radley Film into Novel: Kate O'Brien's Modernist Use of Film Techniques - Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka The Feng Shui of Lough Derg: Therapeutic Landscapes and the Marketing of Spirituality in Contemporary Ireland - Anne Mulhall Identity 'Indebted for their existence to the inessential': On Three Irish Artists - Colin Graham Post-Feminism and the Celtic Tiger: Deirdre O'Kane's Television Roles - Claire Bracken New Identities in the Irish Horror Film: Isolation and Boy Eats Girl - Zelie Asava Becoming-Woman, Becoming-Mad: Transformations in the Interstice in the Cinema of Neil Jordan - Jenny O'Connor Mourning Sex: The Aesthetics of Queer Relationality in Contemporary Film - Fintan Walsh