Irish Masculinity on Screen

The Pugilists and Peacemakers of John Ford, Jim Sheridan and Paul Greengrass

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by Joseph Paul Moser

Type

Studies

Subject

Sociology

Keywords

masculinity, characters, Ireland

Publishing date

2013

Publisher

McFarland & Co

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 216 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-0-7864-7416-5

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Book Presentation:
Examining images of gender and violence, this book analyzes selected works of three influential artists of the Irish cinema—Ford, Sheridan and Greengrass—whose careers, taken together, span the period from 1939 to the present. These three explore fundamental questions about identity, patriarchy and violence within Irish and Irish-American contexts, and in the process upset conventional notions of masculine authority. Furthermore, Ford’s later films interestingly depart from the egalitarian ideals that distinguish his pre–World War II films.

About the Author:
Joseph Paul Moser is an assistant professor of English and film studies at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Press Reviews:
"well-written…entertaining academic"—DVD Talk.

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