Ireland on Film: Identity and Representation - AAA500722

• Title: Ireland on Film: Identity and Representation
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2013
• Semester: summer
• Points: 2
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: AAALC004A
• Guarantor: doc. Clare Wallace, M.A., Ph.D.
• Class: Exchange - 03.4 Photography, Cinematography; Exchange - 09.2 General and Comparative Literature
• Interchangeability : AAALC004A

Annotation

Course Description:
This course will explore representations of Ireland and the Irish through film. One of the central aims will be to analyse the ways in which Ireland has been portrayed by filmmakers ? as quaint and pastoral or conversely as a nation plagued by seemingly senseless violence ? and to explore how more recently these trajectories are becoming more complicated. In particular, we will focus upon questions of authenticity and imagination, the texts and contexts of the films, while taking into account the background of current debates in Irish cultural and literary studies involving post-colonialism and post-modernism.

Full syllabus http://www.english-department-prague.cz/

Last update: Wallace Clare, doc., M.A., Ph.D. (24.03.2010)

Literature

Barton, Ruth. Jim Sheridan: Framing the Nation. Dublin: Liffey Press, 2002.

Bőss, Michael and Eamon Maher eds. Engaging Modernity: Readings of Irish Politics, Culture and Literature at the Turn of the Century. Dublin: Veritas, 2003.

Brown, Terence. Ireland: A Social and Cultural History 1922-1985. London: Fontana, 1985.

Cleary, Joe and Claire Connolly eds. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Cullingford, Elizabeth Butler. Ireland's Others: Ethnicity and Gender in Irish Literature and Popular Culture. Cork: Cork University Press, 2001.

Film West Ireland?s Film Quarterly http://www.iol.ie/~galfilm/filmwest/currentissue.htm

Gibbons, Luke. Ireland into Film Series: The Quiet Man. Cork Cork University Press, 2002.

Gibbons, Luke. Transformations in Irish Culture. Cork: Cork University Press, 1996.

Kearney, Richard ed. Across the Fontiers: Ireland in the 1990s, Cultural - Political - Economic. Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1988.

Kee, Robert. Ireland A History. London: Abacus, 1995.

Kiberd, Declan. Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation. London: Vintage, 1995.

McCormack, W. J. ed. The Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture. Oxford: Malden (Mass.) : Blackwell, 1999.

McKillop, James. Contemporary Irish Cinema: From The Quiet Man to Dancing at Lughnasa. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1999.

McLoone. Martin. Irish Film: The Emergence of a Contemporary Cinema. London: British Film Institute, 2000.

Pettitt, Lance. Screening Ireland: Film and Television Representation. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2000.

Pilný, Ondřej and Clare Wallace eds. Global Ireland. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2005.

Rockett, Emer and Kevin Rockett. Neil Jordan: Exploring Boundaries. Dublin: Liffey Press, 2003.

Rockett, Kevin, Luke Gibbons and John Hill. Cinema and Ireland. London: Routledge, 1988.

The British Film Institute http://www.bfi.org.uk/

The Irish Film Board http://www.filmboard.ie/index600_800.php

You may also search the Irish Studies collection in our library through http://uaa.ff.cuni.cz/irbook/html/

Last update: Wallace Clare, doc., M.A., Ph.D. (24.03.2010)

Teaching methods

Seminar + Film Screening

Last update: Wallace Clare, doc., M.A., Ph.D. (24.03.2010)