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Author O'Connell, Dióg

Title New Irish storytellers : narrative strategies in film / Dióg O'Connell
Published Bristol ; Chicago : Intellect, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (200 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: Reclaiming the Notion of Story -- Irish Film Board / Bord Scannan na heireann -- Irish Road Movies -- Narrative Strategies Re-imagined -- Irish Romantic Comedy -- Strategies of Characterization -- Immersed in Two Traditions -- Adam & Paul, Garage and Prosperity -- A Modern Love Story -- Nora -- Alternative Narrative Forms in New Irish Cinema -- Narrative Diversity and Range in New Irish Cinema
Summary New Irish Storytellers examines storytelling techniques and narrative strategies in contemporary Irish film and illuminates the craft, skill and creative decisions of Irish film-makers since the 1990s. Revealing defining patterns, styles and tendencies within recent Irish cinema, this book explores connections between Irish cinematic storytellers and their British and American colleagues. The period under scrutiny stretches back to 1993, the year the Irish Film Board was re-activated, facilitating a phase of prolonged film production after a hiatus of seven years. Reflecting on this key and distinctive era in Irish cinema, this book explores how film gave expression to tensions and fissures in the new Ireland
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-189) and index
Notes English
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Subject Motion pictures -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century
DRAMA.
Motion pictures
Erzähltechnik
Film
Ireland
Irland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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