Screening Modern Irish Fiction and Drama

R. Barton Palmer, Marc C. Conner, R. Barton Palmer, Marc C. Conner

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9783319409276
• eBook ISBN: 9783319409283
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Frontmatter
• 1. Introduction: Screening Modern Irish Fiction and Drama
• 2. Liam O’Flaherty’s The Informer and the Aesthetics of Terror
• 3. Deconstructing Political Adaptations: Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars
• 4. Genre and Charisma in Shaw’s Major Barbara
• 5. Lewin’s Wilde: Aestheticism, Moralism, and Hollywood
• 6. “Wonderful and Incomparable Beauty”: Adapting Period Aesthetic for The Importance of Being Earnest
• 7. The Quiet Man: From Story to Film
• 8. The British New Wave Screens Ireland: Desmond Davis’s The Girl with Green Eyes (1964)
• 9. John Huston’s The Dead (1987)
• 10. Sheridan’s Supercrip: Daniel Day-Lewis and the Wonder of My Left Foot (1989)
• 11. Roddy Doyle’s The Barrytown Trilogy and Filming Ireland’s “New Picture”
• 12. Popular Culture in 1960s Provincial Ireland: Neil Jordan’s The Butcher Boy
• 13. The Ritual of Memory in Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa
• Backmatter