ABSTRACT
This impressive volume takes a broad critical look at Irish and Irish-related cinema through the lens of genre theory and criticism. Secondary and related objectives of the book are to cover key genres and sub-genres and account for their popularity. The result offers new ways of looking at Irish cinema.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|49 pages
Genre, Ireland, and theory
part II|50 pages
Genre, Ireland, and Hollywood
chapter 4|15 pages
Is californication a mortal sin?
The influence of classic Hollywood cinema on indigenous Irish film
part III|39 pages
Transnational and transformational contexts
chapter 8|13 pages
“Sometimes the imagination is a safer place”
Fantastic spaces and The Fifth Province
part IV|28 pages
Genre and the Irish short film
chapter 10|12 pages
“The Ireland they dream of”
Éireville, Coolockland, and the appropriation of science fiction and fantasy narratives in Irish short filmmaking
part V|25 pages
Jordan, gothic, horror
part VI|27 pages
Genre and the city film
chapter 15|13 pages
Cityscapes of fluid desire
Queering the romantic comedy in Liz Gill's Goldfish Memory
part VII|42 pages
Northern Irish commemorative cinema
