ENGL 40567 - National Cinema: Film, Literature and Irish Culture

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

This course will examine some of the dominant images of Ireland in film and literature from the Celtic Twilight to the Celtic Tiger, and will place the development of a national cinema in a wider cultural and historical context. Comparisons between film, literature and other cultural forms will feature throughout the course, and key stereotypes relating to gender, class and nation will be analyzed, particularly as they bear on images of romantic Ireland and modernity, landscape, the city, religion, violence, family and community. Particular attention will be paid to questions of emigration, the diaspora and Irish-America, with a view to looking later in the course at issues relating to race and multi-culturalism in contemporary Ireland. In terms of film and literature, key figures such as Yeats, Synge, and Joyce, and contemporary writers such as Brian Friel, John McGahern, Maeve Brennan, William Trevor, Patrick McCabe, Seamus Deane, Alice McDermott and Roddy Doyle will be discussed. The resurgence of Irish cinema and new forms of Irish writing in the past two decades will provide the main focus of the second part of the semester, tracing the emergence of new distinctive voices and images in an increasingly globalised and multi-cultural Ireland.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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