Overview
- Provides a new view of how Irishness has been brought to the screen
- Offers 12 original essays focusing on major works of Irish fiction and drama that have been adapted for film
- Features leading scholars in film, literary and adaptation studies
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture (PSADVC)
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About this book
This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of the relationship between Modern Irish Literature and the Irish cinema, with twelve chapters written by experts in the field that deal with principal films, authors, and directors. This survey outlines the influence of screen adaptation of important texts from the national literature on the construction of an Irish cinema, many of whose films because of cultural constraints were produced and exhibited outside the country until very recently. Authors discussed include George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Liam O’Flaherty, Christy Brown, Edna O’Brien, James Joyce, and Brian Friel. The films analysed in this volume include THE QUIET MAN, THE INFORMER, MAJOR BARBARA, THE GIRL WITH GREEN EYES, MY LEFT FOOT, THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, THE SNAPPER, and DANCING AT LUGHNASA. The introduction features a detailed discussion of the cultural and political questions raised by the promotion of forms of national identity by Ireland’s literary andcinematic establishments.
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Reviews
“Surveying a century of Irish adaptations from The Informer to Dancing at Lughnasa, Palmer, Conner, and ten other contributors celebrate a national cinema whose sources range far beyond Wilde and Shaw, a cinema with the power to raise pivotal questions that have obvious application to other national cinemas as well.“ (Thomas M. Leitch, author of “Adaptation and its Discontents” (2007))
“This timely and highly readable collection asks why the great flowering of Irish literature, at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, is strangely resistant to film adaptation and, by extension, why there is so little written about Irish literary cinema. This collection convincingly identifies and fills this gap in the field of Adaptation Studies. The collection engagingly demonstrates that it’s high time we consider Irish film and literature as a group of texts that can be considered together while at the same time arguing how every example in the volume – from adaptations of the works of George Bernard Shaw to those of Roddy Doyle – invites and resists a monolithic notion of Irish literary cinema.” (Deborah Cartmell, author of “A Companion to Literature, Film and Adaptation” (2012))
“The imaginative vibrancy of Irish cinema receives its rightful due in this critically shrewd, reliably witty and historically nuanced survey of film adaptations. Indispensable for anyone curious about or fascinated by how modern Irish drama and fiction have been translated to the screen.” (Maria DiBattista, author of “Fast-talking Dames” (2001))
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
R. Barton Palmer is the Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University, where he also directs the World Cinema program. He is the author, editor, or general editor of more than seventy academic books in both literature and film studies. He directs book series at six university or scholarly presses, including (with Julie Grossman) Adaptation and Visual Culture at Palgrave Macmillan. He is the author or editor of several books on literature/film adaptation, including (with Grossman) the multi-author volume Adaptation in Visual Culture: Images, Texts, and Their Multiple Worlds (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).
Marc C. Conner is the Jo M. and James M. Ballengee Professor of English and Interim Provost at Washington and Lee. His books include The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison: Speaking the Unspeakable (2000), Charles Johnson: The Novelist as Philosopher (2007), The Poetry of James Joyce Reconsidered (2012), and The New Territory: Ralph Ellison and the Twenty-First Century, forthcoming (2016). In 2012 the Great Courses program released his 24-lecture series titled How to Read and Understand Shakespeare, and in 2016 they will release a 36-lecture series titled The Irish Identity: Independence, History, and Literature.
Marc C. Conner is the Jo M. and James M. Ballengee Professor of English and Interim Provost at Washington and Lee. His books include The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison: Speaking the Unspeakable (2000), Charles Johnson: The Novelist as Philosopher (2007), The Poetry of James Joyce Reconsidered (2012), and The New Territory: Ralph Ellison and the Twenty-First Century, forthcoming (2016). In 2012 the Great Courses program released his 24-lecture series titled How to Read and Understand Shakespeare, and in 2016 they will release a 36-lecture series titled The Irish Identity: Independence, History, and Literature.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Screening Modern Irish Fiction and Drama
Editors: R. Barton Palmer, Marc C. Conner
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40928-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40927-6Published: 15 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82220-4Published: 07 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40928-3Published: 01 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2634-629X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6303
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 264
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Film Theory, British Culture, British Cinema and TV, British and Irish Literature, Screenwriting, Cultural Policy and Politics