Irish Masculinity on Screen
Author | : Joseph Paul Moser |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2013-06-18 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 147660245X |
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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.