Irish Masculinity on Screen
Author | : Joseph Paul Moser |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2013-06-18 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781476602455 |
ISBN-13 | : 147660245X |
Rating | : 4/5 (45X Downloads) |
Download or read book Irish Masculinity on Screen written by Joseph Paul Moser and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.