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Cinema and Northern Ireland: Film, Culture and Politics

Paperback by Hill, Research Fellow - Emeritus John (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)

Cinema and Northern Ireland: Film, Culture and Politics

£37.99

ISBN:
9781844571345
Publication Date:
6 Aug 2006
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:
BFI Publishing
Pages:
269 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 17 - 18 Aug 2026
Cinema and Northern Ireland: Film, Culture and Politics

Description

Traces the history of film production in Northern Ireland from the beginnings of a local film industry in the 1920s and 1930s, when the first Northern Irish 'quota quickies' were made, through the propaganda films of the 1940s and 1950s and on to the cinema of the 'Troubles'.

Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. 'Ulster must be made soft and romantic': Northern Ireland Film-making in the 1920s and 1930s 2. 'Ulster will fight again': Cinema and Censorship in the 1930s 3. 'Ulster at Arms': Film and the Second World War 4. 'What ideas and beliefs concerning Ulster'?: The Struggle Over Film Images in the Postwar Period 5. 'Go-ahead Ulster': Film, Modernisation and the Return of the Repressed 6. From 'propaganda for the arts' to 'the most powerful industry in the world': Film Policy, Economics and Culture 7. 'It's chaos out there': Changing Representations of the 'Troubles' Select Bibliography Index

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