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050 00 $aPN1995.9.I67$bS27 2009
245 00 $aScreening Irish-America :$b[representing Irish-America in film and television] /$cedited by Ruth Barton.
260 $aDublin ;$aPortland, OR :$bIrish Academic Press,$c2009.
300 $axiv, 417 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [403]-409) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction / Ruth Barton -- From the Nickelodeon to the front room: evolving stereotypes. The Irish migrant and film / Kevin Rockett -- Abie's Irish enemy: Irish and Jews, social and political realities and media representations / Timothy J. Meagher -- Female stardom and ethnicity. Funny girls: early American screen comediennes and ethnicity / Gwenda Young -- The bowery Cinderella: gender, class and community in Irish-American film narrative / Christopher Shannon -- Negotiating the stereotype. Irish Brother Feeney: Francis Ford in John Ford's films / Charles Barr -- The Mick Irish turns federal agent: James Cagney, G-Men and ethnic masculinity / Anthony Burke Smith -- Sport and spectatorship. Irish audiences watch their first US feature: The Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight (1897) / Denis Condon -- '"Shillalah swing time"-- you'll thrill each time a wild Irishman's skull shatters': representing hurling in American cinema: 1930-1960 / Seán Crosson -- Religion and myth. Screening Saint Patrick / William L. Bradley -- Going my way and Irish-American Catholicism: myth and reality / Lawrence J. McCaffrey -- Trans-Atlantic journeys. Captain Lightfoot (1955): caught between a Rock (Hudson) and a rapparee / Tony Tracy -- Projecting or protecting Ireland: the Department of External Affairs and Hollywood 1946-1960 / Roddy Flynn -- Adventurers and explorers. 'Fall in with the Major': race, nation, class, and the Confederate Irish in Sam Peckinpah's Major Dundee (1965) / Paula Gilligan -- Fitzcarraldo, Irish explorer / Mary Lawlor -- Television: histories and fictions. 'We are proud of you': screening Kennedy in Ireland / Harvey O'Brien -- Irishness, anger and masculinity in recent film and television / Diane Negra -- Masculinity, performativity, comedy. Searching for the sub(genre): Irish-American film comedy / Brian McIlroy -- 'The aul' divil': the appropriation of Irishness in Daredevil / Stephen Boyd -- Defining ourselves through the Irishness we sell: the comedy of cultural commodification in Mark Joffe's The matchmaker (1997) / Barry Monahan -- Filmmakers between America and Ireland. The blood of an Irishwoman: race and gender in The nephew and In America / Kathleen Vejvoda -- Repositioning Irish-America: Neil Jordan's American-Irish and the value of interstice / Jenny O'Connor -- Ireland's America: a case study of Sheridan's In America (2002) and Get rich or die tryin' (2005) / Pat Brereton -- Interview with Jim Sheridan / Topny Tracy.
650 0 $aIrish Americans in motion pictures.
650 0 $aMotion pictures$zUnited States$xHistory.
700 1 $aBarton, Ruth.