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| Author | : Ciara Chambers |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Mass media and propaganda |
| ISBN | : 9780716531142 |
Before the advent of television in the 1950s, the newsreels were the only visual news medium available to the Irish public. This title tells the story of how the newsreels depicted the Irish as violent, insular and backward, as well as enterprising, plucky and an asset to Britain, depending on the political climate.
| Author | : Ciara Chambers |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 319 |
| Release | : 2018-09-14 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 3319919202 |
This volume addresses the underscrutinised topic of cinema newsreels. These short, multi-themed newsfilms, usually accompanied by explanatory intertitles or voiceovers, were a central part of the filmgoing experience around the world from 1910 through the late 1960s, and in many cases even later. As the only source of moving image news available before the widespread advent of television, newsreels are important social documents, recording what the general public was told and shown about the events and personalities of the day. Often disregarded as quirky or trivial, they were heavily utilised as propaganda vehicles, offering insights into the socio-political norms reflected in cinema during the first half of the twentieth century. The book presents a range of current research being undertaken in newsreel studies internationally and makes a case for a reconsideration of the importance of newsreels in the wider landscape of film history.
| Author | : Eóin Flannery |
| Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
| Total Pages | : 231 |
| Release | : 2009-06-01 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 081565149X |
From an analysis of the Guinness brand’s reflection of Irish identity to an exploration of murals and film portrayals of political prisoners, this pioneering collection of essays seeks to present Ireland’s relationship to visual culture as a whole. While other works have explored the imagistic history of Ireland, most have restricted their lens to a single form of visual representation. Ireland in Focus is the first book to address the diverse range of visual representations of national and communal identity in Ireland. The contributors examine the politics of visual representation from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Drawing from the areas of cultural theory, postcolonial studies, art criticism, documentary and archival history, and gender studies, the essays provide novel insights on a variety of visual-cultural forms, including film, theater, photography, landscape art, political murals, and the visual iconography of commercial marketing. Bringing together established scholars and emerging young critics in the field, Ireland in Focus breaks new ground in showcasing the essential dynamism of visual culture and its relationship to Irish studies
| Author | : Barry Monahan |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2015-08-25 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1137496363 |
The volume offers a broad range of academic approaches to contemporary and historical Irish filmmaking and representations of nationality, national identity, and theoretical questions around the construction of Ireland and Irishness on the screen.
| Author | : Roddy Flynn |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 657 |
| Release | : 2019-08-09 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1538119587 |
From capsule descriptions/assessments of individual feature films to extended essays on areas such as Irish animation, short film, experimental film and documentary production along with discussion of a wide range of key creative and administrative personnel, the Dictionary combines a breath of existing scholarship with extensive new information and research carried out especially for this volume. It is the definitive guide to Irish cinema in the 21st century. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Irish Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on key Irish actors, directors, producers and other personnel from over a century of Irish film history. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Irish Cinema.
| Author | : Denis Condon |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780716529729 |
This book examines early and silent cinema and its contexts in Ireland, 1895-1921. It explores the extent to which cinema fostered a new way of looking in and at Ireland and the extent to which the new technology inherited forms of looking from the image-producing cultural practices of the theatre, tourism, and such public events as state occasions, political protests, and sports meetings. It argues that before cinema emerged as an independent institution in the late 1910s, it was comprehensively intermedial, not only adapting to the presentational strategies of such forms as the fairground attraction, the melodrama, and the magic lantern lecture, but actually constituting these forms and altering them in the process. In locating cinema in relation to popular and elite culture during a key period of Irish history, it draws in particular on surviving films and photographs; articles and illustrations in newspapers, magazines, and trade journals; contemporary accounts; and official documents. Working against approaches that see early cinema as a precursor to the so-called 'classical' cinema of the 1920s onwards, it provide its readers with a wealth of contemporary material that allows them to see early cinema in its own terms as an evolving (audio-) visual form.
| Author | : Lance Pettitt |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 342 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Ireland |
| ISBN | : 9780719052705 |
Analysing historical and contemporary examples, this book offers a thematically-informed synthesis of influential research on Irish audio-visual culture.
| Author | : Raymond Hickey |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 607 |
| Release | : 2017-04-20 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1316867374 |
Audio recordings of English are available from the first half of the twentieth century and thus complement the written data sources for the recent history of the language. This book is the first to bring together a team of globally recognised scholars to document and analyse these early recordings in a single volume. Looking at examples of regional varieties of English from England, Scotland, Ireland, the USA, Canada and other anglophone countries, the volume explores both standard and vernacular varieties, and demonstrates how accents of English have changed between the late nineteenth century and the present day. The socio-phonetic examinations of the recordings will be of interest to scholars of historical linguistics, the history of the English language, language variation and change, phonetics, and phonology.
| Author | : Martin S. Quigley |
| Publisher | : Roberts Rinehart |
| Total Pages | : 229 |
| Release | : 2001-12-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1461700698 |
In 1943 Martin Quigley was one of three intelligence agents sent to Ireland to evaluate Ireland's neutrality during World War II, or the Emergency as it was euphamistically termed by the Irish. The only agent to retain his cover (as a representative of the U.S. film industry), his mission was to confirm or deny the widely-held view that Ireland was unhelpful to the Allies and even pro-German, a sentiment that still remains in the former Allied countries today.
