An edition of Screening Irish-America (2009)

Screening Irish-America

[representing Irish-America in film and television]

Screening Irish-America
Ruth Barton
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An edition of Screening Irish-America (2009)

Screening Irish-America

[representing Irish-America in film and television]

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Cover of: Screening Irish-America
Screening Irish-America: [representing Irish-America in film and television]
2009, Irish Academic Press
in English
Cover of: Screening Irish-America
Screening Irish-America: [representing Irish-America in film and television]
2009, Irish Academic Press
in English
Cover of: Screening Irish-America
Screening Irish-America: [representing Irish-America in film and television]
2009, Irish Academic Press
in English
Cover of: Screening Irish-America
Screening Irish-America: [representing Irish-America in film and television]
2009, Irish Academic Press
in English

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Table of Contents

Introduction / 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-409) and index.

Published in
Dublin, Portland, OR

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.43/65299162073
Library of Congress
PN1995.9.I67 S27 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 417 p. :
Number of pages
417

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24104076M
ISBN 10
0716529912, 0716529920
ISBN 13
9780716529910, 9780716529927
LCCN
2009280185
OCLC/WorldCat
298782225

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