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Ireland in Focus: Film, Photography, and Popular Culture (Irish Studies)
Eoin Flannery
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Description for Ireland in Focus: Film, Photography, and Popular Culture (Irish Studies)
Hardcover. A collection of essays that seeks to present Ireland's relationship to visual culture as a whole. It examines the politics of visual representation from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Editor(s): Flannery, Eoin; Griffin, Michael. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages, 18 black-&-white illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
From an analysis of the Guinness brand's reflection of Irish identity to an exploration of murals and film portrayals of political prisoners, this pioneering collection of essays seeks to present Ireland's relationship to visual culture as a whole. While other works have explored the imagistic history of Ireland, most have restricted their lens to a single form of visual representation. ""Ireland in Focus"" is the first book to address the diverse range of visual representations of national and communal identity in Ireland. The contributors examine the politics of visual representation from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Drawing from the areas ... Read more
From an analysis of the Guinness brand's reflection of Irish identity to an exploration of murals and film portrayals of political prisoners, this pioneering collection of essays seeks to present Ireland's relationship to visual culture as a whole. While other works have explored the imagistic history of Ireland, most have restricted their lens to a single form of visual representation. ""Ireland in Focus"" is the first book to address the diverse range of visual representations of national and communal identity in Ireland. The contributors examine the politics of visual representation from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Drawing from the areas ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Series
Irish Studies
Number of Pages
207
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815632030
SKU
V9780815632030
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About Eoin Flannery
Eoin Flannery is a lecturer in English literature at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author of Versions of Ireland: Empire, Modernity, and Resistance in Irish Culture and Enemies of Empire. Michael Griffin is a lecturer in English in the Department of Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Limerick, where he also codirects the English and History Program. ... Read more
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