Men and Masculinities in Irish Cinema /
By: Ging, Debbie.
Series: Global Masculinities: Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013Description: ix, 264 pages : ill. ; 25 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | computer Carrier type: volume | online resourceISBN: 9781137291936; 9781137291936:; 1137291931; 9781349312399; 1349312398; 1283947021; 9781283947022.Subject(s): Culture -- Study and teaching | Men in motion pictures | Communication | Masculinity in motion pictures | Motion pictures and television | Motion pictures -- Ireland | Motion pictures -- History | Sociology | Sex (Psychology) | Gender expression | Gender identityDDC classification: 791.4309 GINItem type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Gender and nation: the Gaelicization of Irish manhood -- "Instruments of God's will": masculinity in early Irish film -- Institutional boys: adolescent masculinity and coming of age in Ireland's "architecture of containment" -- Family guys: detonating the Irish nuclear family -- "It's good to talk": language, loquaciousness and silence among Irish cinema's men in crisis -- Troubled bodies, troubled minds: republicanism, bromance and "house-training" the "men of violence" -- New lads or protest masculinities? underclass, criminal and socially- marginalised men in the films of the 1990s and 2000s -- Cool Hibernia: "new men", metrosexuals, Celtic soul and queer fellas -- Conclusion: a masculinity of "transcendent" defeat?
Spanning a broad trajectory, from the New Gaelic Man of post-independence Ireland to the slick urban gangsters of contemporary productions, this study traces a significant shift from idealistic images of Irish manhood to a much more diverse and gender-politically ambiguous range of male identities on the Irish screen.