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Pettitt, Lance

Screening Ireland : film and television representation / Lance Pettitt - Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2000] - xvi, 320 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Back to Ireland's futures -- A century of cinema in Ireland -- Ireland and popular cinema: from silent adventure to romantic comedy -- Documents in culluloid: non-fiction films -- A cinema of romance and experiment, 1958-87 -- Between heritage and Hollywood, 1988-92 -- Cathode ni Houlihan: a short history of broadcasting in Ireland -- The circus in the front room: popular television in Ireland -- Situating Irish television comedy -- Documenting contemporary Ireland -- Television drama and the troubles -- Screening Ireland in the 1990s

Analysing historical and contemporary examples, this book offers a thematically-informed synthesis of influential research on Irish audio-visual culture.

ISBN: 9780719052699 . 9780719052699 . £40.00

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Motion pictures--History--Ireland
Television broadcasting--History--Ireland
Performing Arts.
Films, cinema
Media studies
Cultural studies

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Ireland--In motion pictures