Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 Contents Foreword: Irish National Cinema – What Have We Wrought? Contemporary Thoughts on a Recent History Notes on Contributors vii xviii Introduction Barry Monahan 1 Part I Politics of Home, Space and Place 1 ‘Nothin’ But a Wee Humble Cottage’: At Home in Irish Cinema Conn Holohan 13 2 Gangland Geometries: Space, Mobility and Transgression in the Veronica Guerin Films Jenny Knell 24 3 ‘Don’t Use Your Own Accents!’: Representations of Dublin’s Accents in Contemporary Film Nicholas O’Riordan 35 4 Beyond Horror: Surviving Sexual Abuse in Carmel Winters’ Snap Kathleen Vejvoda 47 Part II Identities of Gender and Stardom 5 Black and White and Green All Over? Emergent Irish Female Stardom in Contemporary Popular Cinemas Ciara Barrett 59 6 Transcending Parochial Borders? Jonathan Rhys Meyers Is Henry VIII Liz Carville 71 7 Old and New Irish Ethnics: Exploring Ethnic and Gender Representation in P.S. I Love You Silvia Dibeltulo 82 v Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 vi Contents 8 Mediating between His & Hers: An Exploration of Gender Representations and Self-Representations Patricia Neville 94 Part III Northern Ireland 9 From Belfast to Bamako: Cinema in the Era of Capitalist Realism Stephen Baker and Greg McLaughlin 107 10 ‘Many Sides, Many Truths’: Collaborative Filmmaking in Transitional Northern Ireland Laura Aguiar 117 11 The Suffering Male Body in Steve McQueen’s Hunger Raita Merivirta 12 Mickybo and Me: A Cinematographic Adaptation for an International Audience Brigitte Bastiat 127 137 Part IV Overseas Perspectives 13 Singing in the Rain: The Irish-Themed Film Musical and Schlager’s Hibernian Moment Fergal Lenehan 14 Irish Cinema: A French Perspective Isabelle Le Corff 15 Is Adaptation an Act of Transformation? J. B. Keane’s The Field on Screen Noélia Borges 149 158 170 16 Irish Cinema in Italy: The Roma Irish Film Festa Ciara Chambers and Barry Monahan 181 Bibliography 192 Filmography 205 Index 209 Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 Introduction Barry Monahan There are manifest similarities in the ways that nations and national film cultures are born and develop. Both are protean and volatile, and elude reductive teleological interpretations and categorization, and both are at the mercy of the vicissitudes of sociological, political, hegemonic, global, historical and economic events and eventualities. Even in cases where certain structural trends of film output are historically identifiable in different international contexts, specificities that are characteristic of given national and national film culture contexts can bear remarkable similarities across geographical borders. It is hardly a coincidence, for example, that the Hollywood and Bollywood mechanisms – in such cantonized, multicultural demographies – have produced cinematic cultures consistently designed around clearly recognizable generic structures (distinctly maintained film categories in the former, and imbricated and amalgamated within individual films in the latter). This diachronic peculiarity contrasts radically with the more synchronic national cinema movements that are often subsumed under a broader ‘European film’ epithet, but are nevertheless still identified discursively by titles such as ‘German Expressionism’, ‘Italian NeoRealism’, the ‘French Nouvelle Vague’, ‘British Social Realism’ or the ‘Danish Dogme95 Project’, all of which are consigned to precise temporal moments as categories of film history. The constitutions of nation and nationality also operate in a dialectically similar way to that of a national cinema (and by this, as opposed to ‘national film’, I mean specifically the broader element of the cinematic apparatus). Both require an unrestricted and constantly evolving interaction between concrete manifestations, artefacts and performances, and engaged critical commentary on the same. In the light of these two frameworks for consideration – instability on the one hand and 1 Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 2 Introduction the dialectical relationship between concrete components and critical discourse on the other – the case of Ireland and Irish film culture offers an interesting case study. While the burgeoning Irish nation had so tentative a birth and delivery, as has been so often noted, so, too, did an indigenous cinema – from official recognition and support, to the provision of technological hardware and studio and training facilities – have a belated and belaboured beginning, with more than one false start and recession along the way. More optimistically, and perhaps counter-intuitively in view of this prohibitive context, the development of critical commentary on Irish cinema has been consistent, strong and increasingly imaginative. On the solid foundations provided by internationally acclaimed pioneers in the field – John Hill, Luke Gibbons, Martin McLoone and Kevin Rockett – waves of second-generation academics and other cultural critics have offered wide-ranging and fruitful observations on every aspect of Irish cinema, from theoretical and political perspectives, and empirical and aesthetic analyses, to historical and practice-based interpretations. As Hill, Gibbons, McLoone and Rockett continued to produce ground-breaking research, the innovative work of other home-grown analysts was added to the critical canon: Ruth Barton, Harvey O’Brien, Lance Pettitt and Emer Rockett, to mention a few. Now, with an expanding army of academic commentators, another wave of rich and diverse analysis has come from many of my own contemporaries and the pens of Zélie Asava, Steve Baker, Ciara Chambers, Denis Condon, Maeve Connolly, Debbie Ging, Conn Holohan, Díóg O’Connell, Emma Radley, Tony Tracy and too many others to mention here. In a number of ways, even more significant – since it has so obviously been from its inception, essentially a transnational medium – is the moment at which the national cinema finds its global purchase and there occurs a rise in overseas commentary, commensurate with the success and recognition of our indigenous films in other countries. From the earliest foray into academic considerations of Irish cinema, scholars like Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, Brian McIlroy and Anthony Slide have contributed reflections on the medium and, in time, these have been added to by highly critically recognized specialists like Michael Patrick Gillespie, Isabelle Le Corff, Diane Negra, Maria Pramaggiore and Rosa González, again to name only a few. On the global platform of increasing inter-communicational technologies, we should celebrate the ever-expanding numbers of instruments and channels of dialectical commentary that seek to progress the identity and knowledge base of our national cinema. Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 Barry Monahan 3 That the thematic range of critical perspectives has also diversified and deepened is further cause for celebration and is also testimony to an expanding canon of noteworthy films. Within the categories of historical, theoretical and aesthetic analysis, more probing accounts into fields such as genre, gender and identity studies, cinema and transnational collaboration and narration, and, more recently, aspects of intertextuality, adaptation and performance studies and eco-criticism, have all further expanded and enriched the investigative scholarly canvas. Such commentaries provide a necessary keystone in the conceptual cinematic cultural output, and offer to students in our third-level institutions inspiration and challenges to their thinking about what a 21st-century cinema should and can do. In an age – as we are repeatedly reminded – when almost everyone has some form of technological hardware for the recording of moving images (often in our pockets!), the capacity to make movies should be met all the more ardently with the requirement to have the intellectual and creative capability to make excellent movies. In this respect, our academic discursive input is of increasing critical importance. This collection of essays, like so many others published in the field, hopes to bring several intellectual interventions into the cultural dialectic of the medium, by working from the potential wealth that its polyvocality and thematic variety should offer. Divided into four parts, its breadth incorporates not just commentary from analysts at home and around the globe, but also contributions from writers from several disciplines, and from both internationally established and early career scholars who have innovative interjections to relate. The extended foreword has been written by professor of media and cultural studies, Martin McLoone, who, having only recently retired from the University of Ulster (although no less actively engaged in, and engaging with, the field), offers a magnanimous overview (across his career) from the early, hesitant days of a burgeoning Irish cinema. His account is both personally informed and analytically rigorous, as McLoone offers a historical synopsis of the fluctuations in the development of Irish and Northern Irish cinema. This outline runs parallel to an interpretation of what citizens should expect from their national cinematic culture; how it should be reflective, constitutive and transformative of the more dubious ideological forces that run the state. In this, he references an essay titled ‘Z-movies or what hath CostaGavras wrought?’, first published by French critic Guy Hennebelle in 1974, and which he says inspired him to think differently about the important position that a national cinema necessarily occupies in a Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 4 Introduction healthy socio-political system. McLoone’s argument moves on from Hennebelle’s reflection on the activist cinema of native Greek CostaGavras by optimistically suggesting that mainstream cinema is capable of being politically engaged and is not inevitably caught in a politically paralysing populist hegemony. Ireland’s case – although not unique – is one that must typically, constantly confront its position as marginal and peripheral to the mainstream centre, but this must not excuse it from the responsibility to challenge and inform a broader political culture. McLoone cites Bob Quinn and his contemporary Irish filmmakers working in the 1970s and ’80s as activists whose films were both politically engaged and formally innovative. As his ideas unfold, McLoone comes to address the relative benefits and problems of current funding and marketing situations in both the north and south of Ireland, before he ends with an affirmative turn to reflect on some current academic writing on recent Irish cinema; a conclusion that returns to the debate about mainstream and peripheral cinematic production and the relationship between minor national cinemas and generic paradigms, where his essay began. The main body of the collection is divided into four parts for thematic coherence and practicality for the research reader. The first of these considers the representations of space, place and the home in Irish cinema. In Chapter 1, Conn Holohan addresses the ways in which notions of home have been conceptualized and constructed in a historical dialectical relationship between cinema and other socio-cultural commentaries. Beginning his polemic with reflections on the contemporary Irish socio-economic context – a time at which earlier romanticized notions of ‘the home’ shifted towards the more exchange-value position occupied during the Celtic Tiger years of acquisition of ‘the house’ – Holohan returns to the metaphorical evocation of Ireland as homeland, using John Ford’s 1952 film The Quiet Man as an exemplary case. From there, Holohan analyses how more recent cinematic representations problematize the earlier idealizations of homestead, proposing that the shift from the former is indicative of changing attitudes to what the home is; maintaining the displacement of both previously accepted international perspectives of Ireland as ‘home’ (by the considerable Irish diaspora), and national, local values of ‘home’ as socially cherished ‘hearth’. Holohan evokes Mark Augé’s notion of the postmodern, globalized non-space ultimately detached from traditional historical contexts, to problematize the formerly esteemed position of the home, having now become as significant, if not more important, in its virtual and conceptual reality as it used to be in its concrete actuality. In Chapter 2, Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 Barry Monahan 5 Jenny Knell offers an analysis of Dublin as ideologically gendered space in a number of crime films narrating or based on the life and murder stories of investigative crime journalist Veronica Guerin and criminal gang leader Martin Cahill. Knell starts by providing a broad context of cinematic representations of Dublin’s gangland, notably concentrating on five films produced between 1998 and 2003, in order to establish a set of generic precedents that facilitate her analysis of how the female journalist’s social and gendered position rests problematically – although, for Knell’s reading, not entirely inconveniently – at odds with the masculine, working-class criminal worlds in which Guerin (or her alter ego Hamilton) circulates for investigation. The perils of mobilizing such a strong and progressive female protagonist are discernible, according to Knell, in somewhat conservative ways, as warnings and threats to her family are frequently used to mark the character’s violation of territorially gendered social spaces; something that Knell argues is broadly representative of more generally pervasive social attitudes. In the third chapter, Nicholas O’Riordan offers a new angle of reflection on contemporary representations of Dublin on screen (perhaps counter-intuitively for the visual medium, although no less innovatively as a result) by focusing on the role of accent. O’Riordan provides solid historical contextualization for invoking more contemporary concerns over certain ‘inaccuracies’ perceived in certain (non-Irish) actors’ performances of the indigenous accent. As he questions the enduring ubiquity of the critical commentaries on such mainstream cinematic misrepresentations of the native accent, O’Riordan finds historical concerns, publically expressed over a century ago about the threat to the Irish language (by Padraig Pearse) and, latterly, to Hiberno-English (by Oliver St John Gogarty). These precedents, he suggests, may go some way to explaining the enduring – albeit latent – protectionism that might be informing contemporary critical discourses. There is ample evidence, he suggests, that in the light of developments in the Dublin accent during the Celtic Tiger years, even contemporary Irish cinema offers examples of how accent modulation and performance have become useful narrative devices – in both major and minor ways – for character exploration and the examination of changing socio-cultural and socioeconomic stratification. The final chapter in this section neatly bookends with themes introduced in Conn Holohan’s opening contribution. In Chapter 4, Kathleen Vejvoda echoes Holohan’s problematization of the historically constituted ‘cosy homestead’ by concentrating on a dysfunctional set of familial relationships as depicted in Carmel Winters’ film Snap. Vejvoda begins by calling upon stylistic traditions of gothic Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 6 Introduction horror narratives – with some attention given to the role of the child character of that genre – before suggesting that those aesthetic qualities are not simply applied to, but are usefully explored by, Winters’ innovative marriage of formal qualities with her manifest thematic concerns in the film. Vejvoda proposes that the multi-layered narrative movements and formal processes of subjective meaning-making in Winters’ film facilitate a reading of cinematic mediation that is at one and the same time open to charges of pornographic sexualized objectification, but also, more optimistically as the film moves towards an interrogative historiographical (in-)conclusion, a possible mechanism of redemption, and release for victims of atavistic cycles of abuse. The second section of the collection gathers fours essays around the overlapping themes of gender and stardom as globally performed on the national platform. In Chapter 5, Ciara Barrett uses two case studies of Irish female ‘stardom’ – the early careers of Saoirse Ronan and Ruth Negga – to explore the less obvious, and much less frequently discussed, histories of Irish female star performance in the context of mainstream cinema. Barrett begins by establishing a number of lines of interrogation, by drawing attention to the problematic discursive relegation of the construction of female stardom generally, the tentative positions held by the Irish male star within cinematic narratives historically, and then brings both of these together to question the relative paucity of dynamic and complex roles created for the recognizable – and celebrated – Irish female star. As what might at first seem to be an affirmative antidote to this dearth, Barrett examines the position of rising Irish actresses Ronan and Negga, and explores the extent of selfmanagement of their images, as well as the construction of the same, by national and international media. What may be seen as an advance for the indigenous female actor within the category of ‘stardom’ more generally, Barrett implies may be matched by a commensurate dilution of the sense of a national identity within that same category. Shifting to the more established career of Jonathan Rhys Meyers (perhaps a noteworthy example, in view of Ciara Barrett’s argument), in Chapter 6, Liz Carville considers how extra-textural mediation and construction of the Irish actor’s image have informed both his casting and then intertextual meaning-creation as Henry VIII in Michael Hirst’s television series The Tudors. Not without precedent – as Carville goes through a number of the on-screen roles already played by the notably ‘Irish’ performer – Meyers’ characterization of the volatile, impetuous and problematically depicted ‘masculine’ English monarch is neatly drawn and maintained by references to biographical details of the actor’s public Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 Barry Monahan 7 persona. These are not only strategically mobilized in cultural commentary, Carville suggests, but also work from certain problematic historical essentializations of ‘Irishness’ within earlier colonial representations and discourses. In the seventh chapter, Silvia Dibeltulo proposes a relationship between the ideological design of certain aspects of mainstream ‘Irish’ masculinity and evolving ethnicities of ‘Irishness’ in a way that provides appropriate continuity with the observations of the previous two chapters. In this essay, Dibeltulo invites the reader to consider the semiotics – in dialogue and visual coding – of Irishness, as constructed in mainstream American cinema. Although her focus is mostly concentrated on the Richard LaGravenese adaptation of Cecelia Ahearn’s novel P.S. I Love You, Dibeltulo’s analysis of both ‘old’ and ‘new’ ethnics and her introduction of the category of ‘hyphenated identity’ as informative construction both imply a much farther-reaching, and more significant, application of her theoretical framework across the breadth of mainstream visual culture. Moving towards a conclusion that increasingly concentrates on a masculine (and masculinized) Irish ethnicity, Dibeltulo frames the development in the representation of the earlier stereotype within economically motivated and hegemonically conservative and capital-based motivations. In the final chapter of this section, Patricia Neville challenges simplistic readings of Ken Wardrop’s documentary His & Hers by confronting reductive notions of documentarian objectivity in combination with an application of the flexibility ascribed to sociological constructions of gender. As she charts an established range of cinematic and (more generally) narrative tropes that have been historically ascribed to the female character – in this case, specifically, the Irish female character – Neville goes on to measure the degrees of perceived and accepted innovation in Wardrop’s film, to suggest that it may not be as revolutionary a construction of femininity as first appears. With a close reading of the film, and a provision of extra-textual information about its production, Neville contextualizes Wardrop’s offering in the light of its critical reception and against its cinematic precursors in the creation of a sense of feminine identity on screen. The third part of the book gathers together four chapters that consider themes relating to the cinema and representations of Northern Ireland. In the first of these, Chapter 9, Stephen Baker and Greg McLaughlin outline a polemic that, notwithstanding the note that films are inevitable ideological texts, representations of the Northern province have tended towards formal and, therefore, political caution. Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 8 Introduction Calling for more directly probing and engaging cinematic address to the contemporary socio-political situation of that province, Baker and McLaughlin offer analytical comparison with another innovative example of marginal filmmaking by looking at African, Abderrahmane Sissako’s, Bamako. They hold a close analytical reading of this peripheral Malian film as a wonderful example of how even non-mainstream cinema can address global hegemonic forces, with a subversive swipe at the dominant international institutions of capital and cultural dominance. Baker and McLaughlin show how this formally challenging film simultaneously provides a critique of the moral bankruptcy of organizations like the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and eschews the established stylistic and structural constructing principles of mainstream generic cinema. By evoking an argument that has already been introduced in Martin McLoone’s essay in this collection, they affirmatively call for a similar creative revolution in a Northern-produced cinema that, they feel, has too often fallen into the conventional and banal generic formatting of populist production. In Chapter 10, Laura Aguiar offers a personal account and assessment of her involvement in the production of the Northern Ireland documentary We Were There; a collaborative project constructed from interviews with former detainees in the Maze and Long Kesh prisons, and their relatives, in conjunction with the Prisons Memory Archive. As Aguiar details her roles as co-director and editor of the film, she problematizes the methodologies involved in rendering an account of various historical and personal narratives and experiences into a coherent piece of cinema that might be deemed compassionate and fair-minded by those represented directly and indirectly in the content. Referencing the highly problematic concepts of ‘historical accuracy’, ‘objectivity’ and ‘impartiality’, Aguiar’s essay frankly addresses the desire for interested engagement with, and respect for, the personal stories behind the experiences in and around the institutions of incarceration, against the context of highly charged political and social situations offered by the documentary. Raita Merivirta focuses on the representations of masculinity and the male body on screen by using Steve McQueen’s 2008 film Hunger as a case study in Chapter 11. By referencing the historical context of recognizable images and iconography of the Maze Prison protest hunger strikes in the early 1980s, and their occasional cinematic representation, Merivirta analyses the development of the semiotics of Christian martyrdom – as politically mobilized and often-applied filmic shorthand – and measures McQueen’s use of Michael Fassbender’s naked male body in the role of Bobby Sands as one that works against Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 Barry Monahan 9 established trends. She proposes, ultimately, that McQueen’s approach has certain qualities that set it apart from earlier representations and draws from these a potentially refreshing alternative to mainstream depictions of the politicized naked male body on screen. This section of the book closes with Brigitte Bastiat’s look at the difficulties inherent in the process of adaptation for the screen of an original theatrical text and uses Owen McCafferty’s play Mojo Mickybo – and Terry Loane’s 2004 cinematic version Mickybo and Me – as its main focus. Establishing the problematic nature of ‘adaptation discourse’ and the methodological approaches that ought necessarily to precede its theoretical application, Bastiat uses broader notions of textual (and dialogue) translation, in the form of both subtitles and dubbing script, as paradigms through which to explore the inevitable re-contextualization that occurs when an ‘original’ text finds purchase in a new marketplace. She attempts a reading that offers a degree of empirical consideration (as much as space will allow) of the linguistic mutations that can occur within and against any primary text that is being reworked for a new medium or audience. Although discreetly set from the last chapter, the fourth part of the book moves to consider a number of overseas perspectives on Irish cinema and leads on quite logically from it. In the first essay of this section – Chapter 13 – Fergal Lenehan considers a particular example of generic representation of Ireland on screen by mobilizing Rick Altman’s semantic and syntactic approach to understanding the configurations of mainstream cinema. In this, Lenehan finds a rich example of an Irish musical within the German Schlager cycle and reads . . . nur der Wind (Only the Wind) as an interesting case in its obedience to the semantic conventions of the typical Hollywood-produced Irish-themed musical, as he compares it with a large number of its contemporaries (it was made in 1961) and its precursors. More importantly, according to his analysis, Lenehan proposes how aspects of that film’s syntactic elements reveal an altogether more nuanced interpretation of Irishness, as produced for, and perceived by, its contemporary German-language audiences. In Chapter 14, Isabelle Le Corff begins her study of French audiences’ understanding and expectations of ‘Irish’ films with an empirically informed consideration of how this indigenous cinema and its filmmakers have been critiqued in the French-language press. With reference to a large number of sources, Le Corff traces similarities of critical observation and notes certain tendencies in vagaries of misunderstanding. She moves to her conclusion by offering some explanations for the misconceptions and confusions arising out of, among others, a general propensity to consider Irish cinema under the ‘British’ label Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 10 Introduction and to consider its language as rendering it culturally closer to an international (American) mainstream. In Chapter 15, the adaptation procedure is again considered with a non-Irish audience in mind as Noélia Borges regards the extent to which J. B. Keane’s play The Field was transformed for screen by Jim Sheridan in his 1990 reworking. Considering the problematic nature of the process, and the difficulties owing to its subsequent adjudication in terms of fidelity to, or respect for, the ‘original’, Borges approaches her analysis in much the same way that Brigitte Bastiat did with Mickybo and Me (Chapter 12). Borges uses Dudley Andrews’ writing on adaptation as a starting point for establishing her own analytical parameters, and then considers elements of the film’s revisions of characterization, dialogue and setting, less to adjudicate on the relative merit of Sheridan’s product, than as a means to interrogate the value of the process of remediation in a more general way. In the final chapter of this section, Ciara Chambers and I offer a context for a consideration of a differently motivated perspective on Irish film from abroad (in this case from Rome, Italy). By focusing on the personal project of one of Irish cinema’s more enthusiastic cultural ambassadors in Europe – the creative director of the Rome Irish Film Festa, Susanna Pellis – the chapter begins by providing a brief history of the inception and development of that festival, before offering an extended interview with Pellis. In it, Chambers and I hope to have uncovered some insights into how Irish cinema – its cultural practice and industrial mechanisms – is perceived from another European perspective and, by offering the access to certain personal reflections on the state of our current indigenous film industry by someone involved in its presentation (and regarding it from a helpful distance), our aim has been to cast some light on an alternative viewpoint, and invite questions of further critique and reasons for optimism. Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 Index Note: Locators followed by ‘n’ refers to note numbers. About Adam (2001) (Stembridge, G.), 19–20 Abrahamson, L., 41, 44, 164–6, 187 accents, 5, 32, 35–46, 66, 84, 141, 167 Access Research Knowledge (Ark), 146n8 Adam and Paul (2004) (Abrahamson, L.), 23, 41, 43, 46, 187 Addis, K., 36 Agnew, G., 153 Aguiar, L., 8, 117–26 Ahern, C., 83, 145, 170 Alba, R. D., 83, 88 Alexander (2005) (Stone, O.), 75 Alison, M. H., 126n1 Allen, K., 26 Allen, W., 75 Altman, R., 9, 149–50, 156 Anderson, J., 83 Anderson, W., 66, 69n6 Andrew, D., 10, 158, 171–2 An Everlasting Piece (2000) (Levinson, B.), 111 Anthias, F, 96 Appleton, D., 111 Aretxaga, B., 130 Argyle, J., 156n3 Asava, Z., 2 Ashcroft, B., 159 Atonement (2007) (Wright, J.), 63, 66 Augé, M., 4, 20–1 The Babadook (2014) (Kent, J.), 56n1 Bachelard, G., 17 Baker, S., 2, 7–8, 107–16 Bamako (2006) (Sissako, A.), 8, 107–16 Barbash, I., 117, 121–2 Barrett, C., 6, 59–70 Barton, R., 2, 20, 35, 60–1, 153 Bastiat, B., 137–46 Beckett, S., 170, 187 Behan, B., 164 Belfast, 109–12 Bell, D., 98, 137 Bellos, D., 137 Bennett, J., 40–1 Bennett, O., 123 Bergquist, M. I., 120 Between the Canals (2011) (O’Connor, M.), 23, 41 Blair, D., 24 Blair, L., 128–9, 133 Blown Away (1994) (Hopkins, S.), 73 Bluestone, G., 171, 173 Boorman, J., 24, 74, 160 Borges, N., 170–80 Borzage, F., 152 Bourdieu, P., 25, 32–3 The Boxer (1996) (Sheridan, J.), 107, 111–12, 115–16 Box Office Mojo, 83 Bracken, C., 97 Bradley, S., 67 Breakfast on Pluto (2005) (Jordan, N.), 64 Breathnach, P., 48, 74 Brereton, P., 28 Bress, E., 56n3, 56n10 Brintnall, K. L., 130 ‘British Social Realism,’ 1 Bronfen, E., 15 Brosnan, P., 60 Brown, J. A., 132 Bruzzi, S., 99–100 Bryce, A., 156n4 Burger, G., 156n4 Burke, R., 23 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) (Hill, G. R.), 139 The Butcher Boy (1997) (Jordan, N.), 160, 163, 168n7 Butler, D., 115, 156 209 Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 210 Index Butler, G., 83 The Butterfly Effect (2004) (Bress, E. and Gruber, J. M.), 56n3, 56n10 Byrne, D., 23, 41 Byrne, G., 60 Caffery, D., 107, 109 Cahill, M., 5, 24 Cal (1984) (O’Connor, P.), 160 Calvary (2014) (McDonagh, J. M.), 54 Campbell, K. L., 72 capitalist realism, 107–16 Carney, J., 56, 153, 164–5 Carolan, S., 41, 67 Carroll, L., 45, 143 Carville, L., 71–81 Casey, N., 92n7 Celtic Tiger, 18 booming of, 24 power-geometry, 26 Challenge for Change (1960–80) (Low, C.), 117–18 Chambers, C., 181–91 Chan, J. J., 129 Chandler, D., 98 child abuse, 47–50 Cinema and Ireland, 37, 159 The Citizen (1981–3) (Hamilton, R.), 132 Cleary, J., 86 co-authorship, 121–2 Coffey, E., 54 collaborative filmmaking, 117–26 Comerford, J., 115–16 The Commitments (1991) (Parker, A.), 42, 46, 142, 152, 170 The Company of Wolves (1984) (Jordan, N.), 166 Condon, Denis, 2 The Confession (1970) (Costa-Gavras), 207 Coppola, F. F., 151 Corcoran, M., 126n1 Corner, J., 95, 98 Corrigan, C., 35 Coulter, C., 118 Coupland, N., 40–1, 43–5 The Courier (1988) (Deasy, F. and Lee, J.), 155 Cowboys and Angels (2003) (Gleeson, D.), 18 Cresswell, T., 24–5, 29, 33 Cronenberg, D., 69n2 Cross, N., 123 Crosson, S., 56n4 Crowley, J., 43, 62, 70n7, 74 The Crying Game (1992) (Jordan, N.), 162–4, 166, 169n10 Cullingford, E. B., 2 Cummings, I., 156n3 Curtiz, M., 150 Cusack, T., 14 The Daisy Chain (2008) (Walsh, A.), 23 Daly, L., 41 Damo & Ivor (2013-) (Quinn, R.), 45 A Dangerous Method (2011) (Cronenberg, D.) ‘Danish Dogme 95 Project,’ 1 Danny Boy (1940) (Mitchell, O.), 156n3 Darby O’Gill and the Little People (1959) (Stevenson, R.), 152 Dargis, M., 83 Davidoff, L., 96 Dawson, G., 118–19, 125 Dear Daughter (1996) (Louis Lentin TV), 98 Deasy, F., 155 December Bride (1990) (O’Sullivan, T.), 115–16 The Devil’s Own (1997) (Pakula, A. J.), 73 Devil’s Rock (1938) (Burger, G.), 156n4 Dibeltulo, S., 7, 82–93 Disco Pigs (2001) (Sheridan, K.), 74 Divorcing Jack (1998) (Caffery, D.), 107, 109–10, 112, 115–16 documentaries, social value of, 97–9 Dollhouse (2012) (Sheridan, K.), 41, 45–6 Dornan, J., 60 Doughboys in Ireland (1943) (Landers, L.), 156n3 Dowler, L., 120 Downes, C., 118 Doyle, R., 42, 170 Dreifuss, A., 156n4 Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 Index Dublin, 5, 17–18, 20–1, 23, 26–8, 30, 33–4, 35–46, 49, 74, 76, 83, 94, 150, 152–6, 167 Dudley, A., 10, 158, 171–2 Duffy, C. G., 36 Dwyer, M., 92n2 Dyer, R., 60, 69n4 Edwards, T., 134 Elder, S., 118 Elliot, P., 111 Ellman, M., 135 Elsaesser, T., 160 Elvis: The Early Years (2005) (Sadwith, J. S.), 75 The Emperor’s Wife (2003) (Vrebos, J.), 75 Epinoux, E., 159 The Exorcist (1973) (Friedkin, W.), 56n1 Fair City (1988) (Agnew, G.), 153 Farley, F., 120 Farrell, C., 60, 62, 69n2, 91, 167 Fassbender, M., 8, 60, 62, 69n2, 132, 134 Feldman, A., 130–1 female ‘Irishness,’ 59 female stardom, 59–70 The Field (1990) (Sheridan, J.), 10, 163, 170–80 Finian’s Rainbow (1968) (Coppola, F. F.), 151 Fischer, L., 69n3 Fisher, M., 107 FitzGibbon, I., 17 Flaherty, R., 117 Flynn, R., 48 Ford, J., 4, 15–18, 22, 88 Forde, W., 156n3 Forster, M., 64 Fortenberry, J., 93n9 France, 158–69 François-Geiger, D., 141 Frears, S., 62, 143, 166 the ‘French Nouvelle Vague,’ 1 Friedkin, W., 56n1 Fury (2012) (Weaver, D.), 64 211 Game of Thrones (2011-) (Benioff, D. and Weiss, D. B.), 205 gangland geometries, 24–34 Gans, H. J., 82–3, 85, 88–9, 91, 93n10 Garage (2007) (Abrahamson, L.), 164–5, 187 gender representation, 82–103 The General (1997) (Boorman, J.), 24, 74, 160 Genette, G., 171–2 George, T., 111, 128, 133, 183 German Expressionism, 1 Gibbons, L., 2, 17, 35, 37, 60–1, 92n5 Gibson, M., 131, 134 Gill, L., 19 Gillespie, M. P., 2 Gilligan, V., 28, 31–2 Ging, D., 2, 91, 136, 143 Gleeson, D., 18, 166–7, 186 Gogarty, O.S., 5, 37 Going My Way (1944) (McCarey, L.), 151 Goldbacher, S., 75 Goldfish Memory (2003) (Gill, L.), 19 González, R., 2 Good Friday Agreement (1998), 118 The Good Thief (2002) (Jordan, N.), 161 Gormenghast (2000) (Wilson, A.), 75 The Governess (1998) (Goldbacher, S.), 75 Graham, C., 73 The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) (Anderson, W.), 63, 66, 69n6 Grosz, E., 25 Gruber, J. M., 56n3, 56n10 The Guard (2011) (McDonagh, J. M.), 164, 166–7 Guiney, E., 62 Hackett, C., 124 Hake, S., 154 Hall, C., 96 Hall, T., 56n7 Halter, M., 92 Hannam, K., 26 Hanna (2011) (Wright, J.), 63, 65–6, 69n6 Harkin, M., 62, 161 Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 212 Index Harrington, R., 75 Harvey, D., 2, 109 H3 (2001) (Blair, L.), 128–9, 133, 189 Heaney, S., 14 Hennebelle, G., 3–4 Henry, P., 14 Hickey, R., 39–40, 44 Hidden Agenda (1990) (Loach, K.), 160, 163 High Boot Benny (1993) (Comerford, J.), 115 Hill, G. R., 139 Hill, J., 2, 35, 37, 92n5, 116n3, 119, 139 The Hills of Donegal (1947) (Argyle, J.), 156n3 Hirst, M., 6, 71–81 His & Hers (2009) (Wardrop, K.), 7, 94–103 Holfter, G., 155 Holland, K., 13 Holmes, H. K., 41 Holohan, C., 2, 4–5, 13–23, 62 home prices (in Ireland), 13–14 Hopkins, S., 73 horror films, 47–56 The Host (2013) (Niccol, A.), 64, 164 Hunger (2008) (McQueen, S.), 8, 127–36 Hunt, L., 135 Hush-a-Bye Baby (1992) (Harkin, M.), 62, 161 Huston, J. R., 129 Hutcheon, L., 138, 143, 145, 171 Hyde, D., 36–8 In Bruges (2008) (McDonagh, M.), 74, 164, 166–7 Inglis, T., 96 Innes, C. L., 96 Intermission (2003) (Crowley, J.), 43, 62, 74 Interview with the Vampire (1994) (Jordan, N.), 166 In the Name of the Father (1993) (Sheridan, J.), 160, 162–3, 185 Into the West (1992) (Newell, M.), 17 Irigaray, L., 102 Irish and Proud of It (1936) (Pedelty, D.), 156n3 Irish cinema academic considerations of, 2 accents, 5, 32, 35–46, 66, 84, 141, 167 in capitalist realism, 107–16 city-located films, 19 commodification of Irishness, 89 development of, 3 ethnicity, 82–93 female stardom, 59–70 French perspectives of, 158–69 gender representation, 82–103 home and, 14–23 in Italy, 181–91 linguistic behaviour, 37 male stars, 60 self-representations, 94–103 Irish ‘cultural nationalism,’ 36 Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944) (Ratoff, G.), 156n3 Irish for Luck (1936) (Woods, A. B.), 156n3 Irish-language poetry, 14 Irish-themed film musical, 149–57 Irish Times, 13 Isolation (2005) (O’Brien, B.), 23 Italian NeoRealism, 1 Italy, 181–91 I Went Down (1997) (Breathnach, P.), 74 Jackson, P., 63 Jalea, G. D., 118 Jimi: All Is by My Side (2013) (Ridley, J.), 67 Joffe, M., 60, 89, 93n8 Jones, K.W., 36 Jordan, N., 64, 160–6, 168n7, 169n10, 183, 187 Joyce, J., 170 Kandiyoti, D., 96 Kathleen Mavourneen (1937) (Lee, N.), 156n3 Kavanagh, P., 14 Keane, J. B., 10, 170–80 Keating, D., 23 Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 Index Kellner, D., 115 Kelly, M., 13 Kenny, C., 98 Kent, J., 56n1 Kiberd, D., 63, 73 Kilpatrick, C., 118 Kisses (2010) (Daly, L.), 41 Knell, J., 5, 24–34 Konchalovskiy, A., 75 Kremer, J., 118 LaGravenese, R., 7, 60, 82, 93n8 Lamb, M., 49, 55, 56n9 Landers, L., 156n3 Leap Year (2010) (Tucker, A.), 22, 60, 89 Lebeau, V., 56n8 Le Corff, I., 2, 9, 158–69 Lee, A., 35, 75, 155, 156n3 Lee, J., 155 Lee, N., 156n3 Lenehan, F., 9, 149–57 Let’s Be Famous (1939) (Forde, W.), 156n3 Levinson, B., 111 Leydesdorff, S., 125 Life’s a Breeze (2013) (Daly, L.), 41 Lillian Russell (1940) (Cummings, I.), 156n3 Lim, D., 134 Linehan, H., 27, 133 Lionheart (2003) (Konchalovskiy, A.), 75 Little Nelly Kelly (1940) (Taurog, N.), 151 Loach, K., 142, 158, 160, 163–6, 168n3 Loane, T., 9, 111, 137–8, 142, 144, 145n5 The Londonderry Air (1938) (Bryce, A.), 156n4 The Long Good Friday (1980) (Mackenzie, J.), 26–7 Longley, E., 63 ‘lord of Ireland,’ 72 Louis Lentin TV, 98 Love/Hate (2010–14) (Carolan, S.), 41, 67 The Lovely Bones (2009) (Jackson, P.), 63 213 Low, C., 117 Luchs, M., 118 Lye, J., 101–2 Mackenzie, J., 24, 26–8, 30–4 MacKeogh, C., 98 MacLaughlin, N., 84, 86 Maeve, C., 2 Maeve (1982) (Murphy, P.), 115–16 The Magdalene Sisters (2002) (Mullan, P.), 47 Maguire, J., 50–2 Mairs, J., 118–20, 124–5, 126n2 Man of Steel (2013) (Snyder, Z.), 78 Massey, D., 16, 21–2, 25 The Matchmaker (1997) (Joffe, M.), 60, 89, 93n8 Match Point (2005) (Allen, W.), 75 McCafferty, N., 126n1 McCafferty, O., 9, 137–9, 144, 145n1, 146n7 McCarey, L., 151 McClintock, A., 96 McCourt, F., 170 McDermott, R., 50, 176 McDonagh, J. M., 54, 166–7 McDonagh, M., 74, 164, 166–7 McDonald, H., 118–19 McEvoy, K., 119 McIlroy, B., 2, 149 McIvor, C., 67 McKeown, L., 118, 126n7, 188 McKittrick, D., 118, 126n7 McLaughlin, C., 117–120, 122, 124–5 McLaughlin, G, 7–7, 107–16 McLaughlin, N., 153, 155 McLoone, M., 2–4, 8, 17–18, 36–7, 61, 73, 84, 86, 116, 153, 155, 158–9, 161 McQueen, S., 8–9, 64, 69n2, 127–36 McRobbie, A., 26 McVea, D., 118, 126n7 Meaney, G., 97 Merivirta, R., 8, 127–36 meta-conflict, 119 Meyers, J. R., 6, 71–81 Michael Collins (1996) (Jordan, N.), 160, 164, 185 Michell, R., 111 Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 214 Index Mickybo and Me (2004) (Loane, T.), 9–10, 111, 137–46 The Mighty Celt (2005) (Elliot, P.), 111 Miller, D., 152 Miller, L., 118, 125 The Minstrel Boy (1937) (Morgan, S.), 156n3 Misfits (2009–2013) (Overman, H.), 64 Missing (1982) (Costa-Gavras), 206 Mitchell, O., 156n3 Moloney, M., 119 Monahan, B., 1–10, 93n8, 170, 181–91 Mona Lisa (1986) (Jordan, N.), 160 Moore, C. (1899–1988), 60 Moore, R., 39–40 Morgan, S., 156n3 The Most Fertile Man in Ireland (1999) (Appleton, D.), 111 Muldoon, O., 118 Mullan, P., 47 Mulvey, L., 69n3, 90, 102 Munday, R., 98 Murphy, C., 60, 62 Murphy, M., 128 Murphy, N., 95 Murphy, P., 115 Murray, R., 126n1 My Left Foot (1989) (Sheridan, J.), 62 My Name Is Joe (1998) (Loach, K.), 166 My Wild Irish Rose (1947) (Butler, D.), 156n3 Nair, M., 75 Nanook of the North (1922) (Flaherty, R.), 117 Naremore, J., 138 Nash, C., 14 Neale, S., 90 Neeson, L., 60, 69n2 Negga, Ruth, 6, 59, 63–8 Negra, D., 2, 17–20, 61–3, 91, 92n7, 156n1 Neville, P., 94–103 Newell, M., 17 Niccol, A., 64 Nichols, B., 98–9 . . . nur der Wind (Wind, Only the) (1961) (Umgelter, F.), 9, 153–5 Noble (2014) (Bradley, S.), 67 Non-Stop (2014) (Collet-Serra), 69n2 Northern Ireland, 107–46 Noyce, P., 73 O’Brien, B., 23 O’Brien, H., 2, 23, 102, 154, 183 O’Connell, D., 2, 27–8, 98, 100–2 O’Connor, F., 164 O’Connor, M., 23, 41 O’Connor, P., 160 O’Donnell, D., 158 O’Hagan, S., 128, 132 O’Hara, M. (b.1920), 60–1 Olaziregi, M. J., 36 Once (2006) (Carney, J.), 153, 164–5, 190 Ondine (2010) (Jordan, N.), 164, 166 Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000) (O’Sullivan, T.), 24, 74 O’Regan, N., 156n5 O’Riordan, N., 5, 35–46 O’Sullivan, M. (1911–98), 60 O’Sullivan, T., 24, 74, 115–16 O’Toole, Peter, 60 O’Tuama, S., 14 Overman, H., 64 Pakula, A. J., 73 Park (1999) (Carney, J. and Hall, T.), 56n7 Parked (2013) (Byrne, D.), 23, 41 Parker, A., 42, 142, 152 Parpart, L., 99–100 The Passion of the Christ (2004) (Gibson, M.), 134 Patriot Games (1992) (Noyce, P.), 73 Pedelty, D., 156n3 Pellis, S., 181 Perrier’s Bounty (2010) (FitzGibbon, I.), 17 Pettitt, L., 2, 128 Phelan, A., 35 Philomena (2013) (Frears, S.), 62 Pickford, M. (1892–1972), 60 Pigs (1984) (Black, C.), 74 Pine, E., 128, 133 Pink, S., 117, 123 post-conflict, 119 Potter, A., 74 Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 Index Power, E., 39–40, 44–5 Pramaggiore, M., 2 P.S. I Love You (2007) (LaGravenese, R.), 7, 60, 82–93, 170 The Public Enemy (1931) (Wellman, W. A.), 60 Puwar, N., 25 Queen’s Film Theatre (QFT), 121 The Quiet Man (1952) (Ford, J.), 4, 15, 17–18, 22, 88, 90 Quinn, B., 4, 182 Quinn, R., 45 Radley, E., 2, 48–9, 56n4, 97 Radley, Emma, 2, 48–9, 56n4, 97 Raftery, M., 98 Raining Stones (1993) (Loach, K.), 166 Rains, S., 87, 89 Ratoff, G., 156n3 Reefer and the Model (1987) (Comerford, J.), 115 Reiner, R., 144 Renner, K., 56n2 Rentfrow, P., 49, 55, 56n9 Rescue Me (2004–11) (Fortenberry, J.), 93n9 Ride with the Devil (1999) (Lee, A.), 75 Ridley, J., 67 Riggs, T., 132–3 Rockett, K., 2, 35, 37, 39, 92n5, 116n3 Roeg, N., 75 Rolston, B., 124 Rome Irish Film Festa, 10, 181–3 Ronan, S., 6, 23, 26, 59, 63–8 Rotten Tomatoes, 92n1 Ryan, L., 96 Ryan, M, 115 Ryder, C., 126n7 Sackett, S. J., 37 Sadwith, J. S., 75 Said, E. W., 145 Samson and Delilah (1996) (Roeg, N.), 75 Schildt, A., 154 Schmid, K., 118 Schumacher, J., 24, 26–8, 30–4 Schuster, H. D., 152 215 Seiter, W. A., 156n3 Selby, J., 35 sexual abuse, 47–56 Shame (2011) (McQueen, S.), 69n2 Shamrock Hill (1949) (Dreifuss, A.), 156n4 Shannon, C., 61 Sheller, M., 24–6, 29 Sheridan, J., 10, 62, 107, 160–3, 165, 171–2, 174–9, 183 Sheridan, K., 41, 45, 74 Shirley (2011) (Teague, C.), 64 Shirlow, P., 119 Shrooms (2007) (Breathnach, P.), 48–9 Siegfried, D., 154 Sigerson, G., 36 Silent Grace (2001) (Murphy, M.), 128 Sissako, A., 8, 107–8, 113–14, 116 Skeggs, B., 29 Slide, A., 2 Slim, H., 123 Smiling Irish Eyes (1929) (Seiter, W. A.), 156n3 Smith, C. (1928–2003), 60 Smith, J. M., 97–8 Smith, M., 125 The Snapper (1993) (Frears, S.), 62, 142 Snap (2010) (Winters, C.), 5, 47–56 Snyder, Z., 78 Sollors, W., 93n10 Some Mother’s Son (1996) (George, T.), 111, 128, 133, 185 Somerset Fry, F., 72 Somerset Fry, P., 72 Song for a Raggy Boy (2003) (Walsh, A.), 47 Song o’ My Heart (1930) (Borzage, F.), 152 Spivak, G. C., 114 Stalker (2012) (O’Connor, M.), 41 Stand by Me (1986) (Reiner, R.), 144 Standby (2014) (Rob and Burke, R.), 23 States of Fear (1999) (Raftery, M.), 98 Steffensen, K. N., 40 Stembridge, G., 19–20, 62 Stevenson, R., 152 Stone, O., 75, 112 Studlar, G., 61, 69n3 Sullivan, M., 118–20 Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 Copyrighted material – 9781137496355 216 Index Swank, H., 83 Sweet Rosie O’Grady (1943) (Cummings, I.), 156n3 Sweet Sixteen (2002) (Loach, K.), 142 Taurog, N., 151 Taylor, L., 117, 121–2 Taymor, J., 75 Teague, C., 64 Thaddeus, O., 115–16 20th Century Fox/Sky Pictures, 26 Thompson, P., 123 Titanic Town (1998) (Michell, R.), 111 Titus (1999) (Taymor, J.), 75 Top o’ the Morning (1949) (Miller, D.), 152 Total Recall (2012) (Wiseman, L.), 69n2 Tracy, T., 2, 62 Trew, K., 118 Tucker, A., 22, 60, 89 Tudor, H., 71 The Tudors (2007) (Hirst, M.), 6, 75, 77, 81 Turner, T., 118 Umgelter, F., 153, 155 Undressing My Mother (2004) (Wardrop, K.), 99–100 Urry, J., 24, 26, 29 The Van (1996) (Frears, S.), 142–3 Vanity Fair (2004) (Nair, M.), 75 Vaughan, M., 69n2 Vejvoda, K., 5, 47–56 Veronica Guerin (2003) (Schumacher, J.), 24, 27–33 Vicious Circle (1999) (Blair, D.), 24 Vrebos, J., 75 Wake Wood (2010) (Keating, D.), 23 Walsh, A., 23, 47 Walsh, K. J., 42, 46 Wardrop, K., 7, 94–5, 99–102 Waters, M. C., 83, 88 Watson, K., 66 Weaver, D., 64 Wellman, W. A., 60 We Were There (2014) (Aguiar, L. and McLaughlin, C.), 8, 117–21, 124–5 What Richard Did (2012), 44–6 When Brendan Met Trudy (2000) (Walsh, K. J.), 42–3, 46 When the Sky Falls (1999) (Mackenzie, J.), 24, 26, 28, 30–3 Whitaker, R., 94 White, L., 36 Whitelock, C., 49, 55, 56n9 Wigon, Z., 129–30 Wilde, O., 156n5, 170 Wilson, A., 75, 183 Wimmer L., 160–2 The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) (Loach, K.), 160, 164–7 Wings of the Morning (1937) (Schuster, H. D.), 152 Winston, B., 98 Winters, C., 5–6, 47–56 The Wire (2002–08) (Simon, D.), 92n3 Wise, J., 15 Wiseman, L., 69n2 Woods, A. B., 156n3 World War Z (2013) (Forster, M.), 67 Wright, J., 63 X-Men: First Class (2011) (Vaughan, M.), 69n2 Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) (Curtiz, M.), 150 Yuval-Davis, N., 96 Zavarzadeh, M., 110 Zembrzycki, S., 122 Žižek, S., 115 Copyrighted material – 9781137496355