Overview
- Offers twelve original essays on contemporary Irish film adaptations
- Features top scholars in Contemporary Irish Literature and Film Studies
- Addresses some of the most important works that have impacted the global cinema and literary landscape
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture (PSADVC)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
In this book, each chapter explores significant Irish texts in their literary, cultural, and historical contexts. With an introduction that establishes the multiple critical contexts for Irish cinema, literature, and their adaptive textual worlds, the volume addresses some of the most popular and important late 20th-Century and 21st Century works that have had an impact on the Irish and global cinema and literary landscape. A remarkable series of acclaimed and profitable domestic productions during the past three decades has accompanied, while chronicling, Ireland’s struggle with self-identity, national consciousness, and cultural expression, such that the story of contemporary Irish cinema is in many ways the story of the young nation’s growth pains and travails. Whereas Irish literature had long stood as the nation’s foremost artistic achievement, it is not too much to say that film now rivals literature as Ireland’s key form of cultural expression. The proliferation ofsuccessful screen versionings of Irish fiction and drama shows how intimately the contemporary Irish cinema is tied to the project of both understanding and complicating (even denying) a national identity that has undergone radical change during the past three decades. This present volume is the first to present a collective accounting of that productive synergy, which has seen so much of contemporary Irish literature transferred to the screen.
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—Lance Pettitt, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Marc C. Conner is the President of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, USA, where he is also professor of English.
Julie Grossman is Professor of English and Communication and Film Studies at Le Moyne College, USA.
R. Barton Palmer is the Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature emeritus at Clemson University, USA, where he taught from 1995-2019.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Screening Contemporary Irish Fiction and Drama
Editors: Marc C. Conner, Julie Grossman, R. Barton Palmer
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04568-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04567-7Published: 17 September 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04570-7Published: 18 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-04568-4Published: 16 September 2022
Series ISSN: 2634-629X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6303
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 278
Number of Illustrations: 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: Adaptation Studies, European Cinema and TV, European Literature, Contemporary Theatre