Tag: Irish on screen

PODCAST: New Irish Itinerary episode

Broadcasts, General News

April Episode now available – Nicky Gogan and Paul Rowley in conversation with Kate Huber In their conversation with Kate Huber, Paul Rowley and Nicky Gogan talk about their documentaries Seaview (2008), Build Something Modern (2011) and The Red Tree (2018). They discuss their journey into filmmaking and how they met; Seaview’s experimental style, which challenges the aesthetics of documentaries while foregrounding the asylum seekers’ experiences; the

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BOOK: White Cottage, White House: Irish American Masculinities in Classical Hollywood Cinema

General News, New Publications

By Tony Tracy | Suny Press White Cottage, White House examines how Classical Hollywood cinema developed and deployed Irish American masculinities to negotiate, consolidate, and reinforce hegemonic whiteness in midcentury America. Largely confined to discriminatory stereotypes during the silent era, Irish American male characters emerge as a favored identity with the introduction of sound, positioned in a variety of roles as mediators

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CFP: Reading Contemporary Irish Culture in the Works of Sally Rooney

Call for Papers, New Publications

The proposed publication (to be published by a major academic publisher upon approval of book proposal) will provide wide-ranging critical insight into the works of Sally Rooney (novels, short fiction, poetry, essays) and the TV adaptations of her works with attention to contemporary Irish culture. The aim of this edited collection is to offer readings of the works of Sally

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