Irish Queer Cinema

Allison Macleod

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781474411493
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

In recent years queer identities have become increasingly visible in Irish cinema, a shift that can be linked to political, economic and social changes taking place both in Ireland and around the world, as well as to changes in national film policy to cater more to international audiences. Irish Queer Cinema explores the sexual politics and socio-economic conditions that have determined the shape and evolution of these representations whilst interrogating the relationship between on-screen visibility and progressive sexual politics. Drawing together 23 films as depictive of an Irish queer cinema, including Clash of the Ash, The Crying Game and Me First, the book investigates the different ways gender and sexuality intersect with nationhood and national forms of belonging, and explores the role of queerness within the constitution of an Irish national culture.

Table of contents

• Irish Queer Cinema
• Copyright
• Contents
• Figures
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Queerly National and Nationally Queer: Paradoxes of an Irish Queer Cinema
• 2. Mapping Ireland’s Queer Films
• 3. Re-imagined Kinship and Failed Communities
• 4. The Contested Space of the Irish Pub
• 5. Compartmentalised Cosmopolitans and Rigid Fluidity
• 6. The Queerly Productive Constraints of Rural Space
• 7. Queer Mobilities and Disassociated Masculinities
• 8. Contested Belongings within Diasporic Space
• 9. The Irish Queer Short Film
• 10. Concluding Remarks
• Select Filmography
• Bibliography
• Index