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Woods, Jeannine
Visions of Empire and Other Imaginings
Cinema, Ireland and India 1910-1962
Series: Reimagining Ireland - Volume 21
Year of Publication: 2011
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2011. X, 220 pp.
ISBN 978-3-03911-974-5 pb.
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Book synopsis
This book has been shortlisted for an ESSE book award 2012 in Cultural Studies in English, Junior Scholars.
Since its inception cinema has served as a powerful medium that both articulates and intervenes in visions of identity. The experiences of British colonialism in Ireland and India are marked by many commonalities, not least in terms of colonial and indigenous imaginings of the relationships between colony or former colony and imperial metropolis. Cinematic representations of Ireland and India display several parallels in their expressions and contestations of visions of Empire and national identity. This book offers a critical approach to the study of Ireland's colonial and postcolonial heritage through a comparative exploration of such filmic visions, yielding insights into the operations of colonial, nationalist and postcolonial discourse.
Drawing on postcolonial and cultural theory and employing Bakhtin's concept of dialogism, the author engages in close readings of a broad range of metropolitan and indigenous films spanning an approximately fifty-year period, exploring the complex relationships between cinema, colonialism, nationalism and postcolonialism and examining their role in the (re)construction of Irish and Indian identities.
Contents
Contents: Orientalism, Celticism and the Emergence of Cinema - Imperial Imaginings - Nationalism and Pre-Independence Cinema - Cinema and Nation-Building - The Nation and its Supplements.
About the author(s)/editor(s)
Jeannine Woods teaches and lectures on the Irish language and film studies in Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her research interests include comparative studies of colonialism, postcolonialism and Irish language, literature and film.
Series
Reimagining Ireland. Vol. 21
Edited by Eamon Maher