Cinema and Northern Ireland

Film, Culture and Politics

John Hill

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English

BFI Publishing
08 August 2006

Media studies; Cinema industry

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'.

By: John Hill
Imprint: BFI Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2006 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 172mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 714g
ISBN: 9781844571338
ISBN 10: 1844571335
Pages: 269
Publication Date: 08 August 2006
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print

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

John Hill is Professor and Head of Research in the Department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author and editor of a number of books, including Cinema and Ireland (1987); Border Crossing: Film in Ireland, Britain and Europe (1994); The Oxford Guide to Film Studies (1998); British Cinema in the 1980s (1999) and National Cinema and Beyond (2004).