The Charm of Unchanging Identities: Negotiating Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Irish-American-Themed Film and Televisio - Schein, Alexandra
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This study is invested with the cultural work of Irishness in US-American popular culture. It is the first to offer as broad of a survey of Irish-American-themed cinema and television as 72 films and 11 television series, ranging from relatively unknown independent productions to box office hits such as The Departed. Thereby, several clusters of negotiating Irishness are identified and illustrated by zooming in at paradigmatic texts. Schein combines approaches from social psychology, gender and cultural studies to illustrate the discursive construction of Irishness and reveal the…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
This study is invested with the cultural work of Irishness in US-American popular culture. It is the first to offer as broad of a survey of Irish-American-themed cinema and television as 72 films and 11 television series, ranging from relatively unknown independent productions to box office hits such as The Departed. Thereby, several clusters of negotiating Irishness are identified and illustrated by zooming in at paradigmatic texts. Schein combines approaches from social psychology, gender and cultural studies to illustrate the discursive construction of Irishness and reveal the intersectional character of identifications. Irish-American identity on screen is inextricably connected to discourses on ethnicity, class, race and, most importantly, gender since it proves to be almost exclusively associated with male experience. The book contributes new insights into the workings of popular culture by critically interrogating these constructions of Irishness and exposing its appropriation in engaging contentious issues in US-American culture. The analysis reveals that Irish liminality enables the envisioning of a more innocent version of citizenship and facilitates the reaffirmation of traditional gender roles and identities. Irish-American-themed movies and television shows thus counteract a deconstruction or undoing of gender and ethnicity in the wake of postmodern and poststructural unrest and evince the tenacity and public currency of essentialist identifications. This book was awarded the "Förderpreis der Dresdner Beiträge zur Geschlechterforschung" by the GenderConceptGroup (TU Dresden).
Autorenporträt
Alexandra Schein begann ihr Studium an der Freien Universität Berlin, wo sie ab 2002 im Lehramtsstudiengang Politik und Englisch studierte. Nach einem Auslandsaufenthalt in Nordirland wechselte sie 2005 an die Technische Universität Dresden und legte dort 2008 ihr Staatsexamen ab. Schon während des Studiums wendete sie sich verstärkt der amerikanischen Kultur zu und verband diesen Schwerpunkt mit ihrem Interesse für Irland. Seit 2008 war sie als wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft in den Nordamerikastudien an der TU Dresden beschäftigt. Sie forschte und lehrte dort bis 2014. Der vorliegende Titel ist die Veröffentlichung ihrer Dissertation, die sie im Jahr 2014 abschloss. Inzwischen ist Alexandra Schein als Lehrerin tätig.