|
|
|
||
|
Course Description:
The 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. Students are expected to watch the assigned films in advance of the class. Schedule: (subject to minor changes) Week 1 (18 Feb.) Introduction and course requirements. Week 2 (25 Feb.) Ethnicity, Authenticity and Documentary: Man of Aran (Robert Flaherty, 1934) Week 3 (4 Mar.) Ireland and the American Imagination: The Quiet Man (John Ford, 1952) Week 4 (11 Mar.) America and the Irish Imagination: Brooklyn (John Crowley, 2015) Week 5 (18 Mar.) Catholic Ireland’s Hidden Pasts: The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan, 2002) Week 6 (25 Mar.) The Troubles on Film: The Crying Game (Neil Jordan, 1992) Week 7 (1 Apr.) The Troubles on Film: Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass, 2002) Week 8 (8 Apr.) Dublin ‘Musicals’: The Commitments (Alan Parker, 1990), Once (John Carney, 2007) Week 9 (15 Apr.) Celtic Tiger Ireland: Intermission (John Crowley, 2003) and Adam and Paul (Lenny Abrahamson, 2004) Week 10 (22 Apr.) Ireland and Europe: In Bruges (Martin McDonagh, 2008) Week 11 (29 Apr.) I will be absent; No class ESSAY PROPOSALS DUE by 6 May at 18.00 Week 12 (6 May) Topic to be finalized Week 13 (13 May) Conclusion Final essay presentations, course evaluation Grading Scheme Attendance and Participation 20% Presentation/Short response paper 20% Proposal (10) + Final Essay (50) 60% Please note: Students are expected to attend classes. If you are absent for more than 30% of the total number of classes, you will not be entitled to the credit. In order to pass this class, you must capable of reading and discussing primary and secondary texts in English and be able to compose an academic research paper at the end of the course. If you have an Independent Study Plan, I need to know at the start of the semester. Last update: Wallace Clare, doc., M.A., Ph.D. (26.01.2025)
|
|
||
|
Barton, Ruth. Jim Sheridan: Framing the Nation. Dublin: Liffey Press, 2002. Barton, Ruth. Irish cinema in the twenty-first century. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019. 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 Flynn, Roddy, and Tony Tracy. Historical dictionary of Irish cinema. Second edition. Lanham, Maryland: Rowan & Littlefield, 2019. 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. Goff, Loretta. “Irish Cinema in the Twenty-First Century.” Estudios irlandeses, no. 15 (2020): 281-283. Hill, John. A companion to British and Irish cinema. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley Blackwell, 2019. Kearney, Richard ed. Across the Frontiers: 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. O’Connell, Diog. New Irish Storytellers Narrative Strategies in Film. Intellect: Bristol, 2010. 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. Scarlata, Jessica. Rethinking Occupied Ireland: Gender and Incarceration in Contemporary Irish Film. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2014. The British Film Institute http://www.bfi.org.uk/ The Irish Film Board http://www.filmboard.ie/index600_800.php Huber, Werner and Seán Crosson eds. Contemporary Irish Film New Perspectives on a National Cinema. Wein: Braumüller, 2011.
Last update: Wallace Clare, doc., M.A., Ph.D. (26.01.2025)
|
|
||
|
Seminar Last update: Wallace Clare, doc., M.A., Ph.D. (26.01.2025)
|