Joseph Paul Moser

Irish Masculinity on Screen

The Pugilists and Peacemakers of John Ford, Jim Sheridan and Paul Greengrass

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examining images of gender and violence, this book analyzes selected works of three influential artists of the Irish cinema--Ford, Sheridan and Greengrass--whose careers, taken together, span the period from 1939 to the present. These three explore fundamental questions about identity, patriarchy and violence within Irish and Irish-American contexts, and in the process upset conventional notions of masculine authority. Furthermore, Ford's later films interestingly depart from the egalitarian ideals that distinguish his pre-World War II films.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780786474165
• ISBN-10: 0786474165
• Artikelnr.: 38060840

Autorenporträt

Joseph Paul Moser is an assistant professor of English and film studies at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter 1. A Fragile Liberalism: Gender in John Ford's Pre-World War II
Cinema
Chapter 2. The Persistence of Patriarchy: Gender and Politics in John
Ford's Later Films
Chapter 3. Assimilation, Integration, Continuity and Critique: Gender and
Genre in the Hollywood Irish Cinemas of John Ford and Jim Sheridan
Chapter 4. Jim Sheridan: Reconstructing the Family, Rede¿ning the Nation
Chapter 5. Alternative Masculinity and Irish Historical Trauma in Paul
Greengrass's Bloody Sunday and Omagh
Conclusion
Chapter Notes
Bibliography and Filmography
Index