Old Borders, New Technologies: Reframing Film and Visual Culture in Contemporary Northern Ireland

by Paula Blair

Overview

This book presents four thematic studies revolving around the issues of imprisonment, surveillance, traumatic recall and myth-making in Northern Ireland. These studies examine the ways in which artists and filmmakers are experimenting with film aesthetics and new media technologies to address the anxieties that continue to trouble the society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783034309455
Publisher:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	04/16/2014
Pages:	271
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Paula Blair holds a PhD in Film and Visual Studies from the School of Creative Arts, Queen’s University Belfast. She has recently completed full-time teaching fellowships with the departments of Film and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen and Film Studies at Queen’s University Belfast.

Table of Contents

Contents: Converging Boundaries – Prison Images: Film, Video and Site-Specific Storytelling – Control Zone: Power and the Simulation of the Real – The Mediated Past-Present: Memory and Live/Non-Live Images – Icons of the North: Myth-Making and Mediatization – What You Can’t See.

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Editorial Reviews

«This book makes a valuable contribution to debates on the importance of a vibrant cultural imagination as a means of understanding both the legacies of conflict and also the legacies of its representation.» (Ciara Chambers, Journal of British Cinema and Television 11.4, 2014)

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