Nora

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by Gerardine Meaney

Type: Studies
Subject: One Film > Nora
Keywords: Pat Murphy, Ireland
Publishing date: 2004
Publisher: Cork University Press
Collection: Ireland into Film
Language: English

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Paperback • 98 pages
5 ¼ x 7 ¾ inches (13.5 x 19.5 cm)

ISBN-10 ISBN-13

1-85918-291-7
978-1-85918-291-8

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Book Presentation:
Pat Murphy's third feature film, Nora (2000), is based on Brenda Maddox's 1988 biography of Nora Barnacle, the wife of James Joyce. The film is on one level a sumptuous historical romance, on another a feminist biopic, on yet another a complex meditation on the relationship between high modernist art and ordinary human relationships. It challenges the ways in which history and sexuality have been constructed in Irish film throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Both the literary biography and film of Nora explore the nature of sexual and aesthetic freedom. But whereas Maddox's biography illuminated an independent-minded and resilient woman, Murphy's film also offers both a feminist and a post-modern critique of the ethics and aesthetics of modernism. Gerardine Meaney investigates the complex relationships between these two texts, and locates the film in the context of new developments in costume drama and historical film in the 1990s.

About the Author:
Gerardine Meaney is Lecturer in Film Studies and English at University College, Dublin..

Press Reviews:
Review of the Ireland into Film series:
"Each writer has also done an impressive amount of new archive research, which greatly enhances the series' value as fim history and film research. The volumes give full production details and where possible, contain good background interviews with writers and directors….Each volume is lavishly illustrated so that as well as providing good detailed information on the films and an engaged debate about adaptation in general, the series is also an excellent value for the collector." (Cineaste)

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