Scholarcast 6: Hollywood and Contemporary Irish Drama - UCD Digital Library
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Scholarcast 6: Hollywood and Contemporary Irish Drama

Abstract: This lecture examines how contemporary Irish playwrights depict and how they engage the cinematic and narrative patterns we’ve come to associate with American movies. Donal O’Kelly’s Catalpa (1995), Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan (1996), Marie Jones’s Stones in His Pockets (1999), and Geraldine Hughes’s Belfast Blues (2003) grapple with the effects of Hollywood on their characters and on Irish society. Despite frequently depicting individuals thwarted in their pursuit of big screen success, these plays maintain a surprising optimism about Hollywood. This suggests the American film industry provides a productive tool for exploring Irish identity and history in a moment of rapidly changing, globalized popular culture.

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Dublin, Ireland : University College Dublin
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sound recording
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00:49:48 ; 71.7 MB (audio/mpeg) — Digital origin: born digital — Reformating quality: access
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Clair Wills is Professor of Irish Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. Her research focuses on twentieth-century Irish literature and culture, and contemporary English, Irish and American poetry. That Neutral Island, Her most recent book, is a social and cultural history of Ireland during the Second World War, published by Faber and Harvard University Press in 2007. She edited the Contemporary Writing section of the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Volumes IV and V (Cork University Press, 2002).
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In addition to her books on Irish poetry: Improprieties: Politics and Sexuality in Northern Irish Poetry (1993), and Reading Paul Muldoon (1998) she has published articles on poets such as Roy Fisher, Denise Riley, and Fanny Howe. She regularly reviews contemporary poetry for the Times Literary Supplement. Her current research, for which she has been awarded a British Academy Senior Research Fellowship, looks at cultural relations between Britain and Ireland in the 1950s. In collaboration with Dr Ian McBride of Kings College London Clair Wills runs the interdisciplinary London Irish Studies Seminar at the Institute of English Studies, Senate House.
iTunes keywords
UCD, Scholarcast, Art, Culture, Literature, English, DCU, Paige Reynolds, Frank McGuinness, Clair Wills, Eddie Holt, Anne Fogarty, Elaine Sisson, Sean Ryder, PJ Mathews, Riverdance, Joyce, Neutrality
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English  
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Lectures   linked data (lctgm) Podcasts
Subject
English drama--Irish authors--American influences
Motion pictures and literature--Ireland   linked data (lcsh)

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Metadata creation date: 2011-11-19 — Machine generated via XSLT from the source metadata at http://www.ucd.ie/scholarcast/scholarcast.xml

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