Gaelic Games on Film : from silent films to Hollywood hurling, horror and the emergence of Irish cinema /

Gaelic games have repeatedly provided filmmakers and producers with a resonant motif through which they have represented ‘perceived' aspects of Irish identity, ‘perceived' as this representation has been neither straightforward nor unproblematic: in international productions in particular,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Crosson, Seán (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Gaelic games.
Sports in motion pictures
Ireland > In motion pictures.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Gaelic games in early cinema
  • Gaelic games in the newsreel era
  • Hollywood hurling : representing Gaelic games in American cinema, 1930-60
  • 'Keep the mummers off the green ground of Croke Park' : remembering Rooney (1958)
  • 'Ar son an náisiúin' : the National Film Institute of Ireland's All-Ireland-final films
  • Coaching Irishness through film : Gaelic games in the film work of Gael Linn
  • The critical turn : Gaelic games in film between the 1960s and 1980s
  • 'The hurley is the new chainsaw' : Gaelic games in contemporary cinema
  • Conclusion.

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