The Great Pretenders
Genre, Form, and Style in the Film Musicals of John Carney
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Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Once (2006): The Musical That Pretended It Was Not a Musical
- Chapter 3 Begin Again (2013): The Remake That Pretended It Was Not a Remake
- Chapter 4 Sing Street (2016): The Coming-of-Ager That Pretended It Was Just a Musical
- Chapter 5 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series index
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Cover image: Sing Street: publicity still, Alamy. © 2016 Cosmo Films,
Distressed Films, FilmNation Entertainment, FilmWave, Likely Story, PalmStar Media.
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ISSN 1662-9094
ISBN 978-1-80374-135-2 (print)
ISBN 978-1-80374-136-9 (ePDF)
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DOI 10.3726/b20644
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About the author
Carlos Menéndez-Otero holds PhDs in English studies and in communications and journalism. He is a member of the research group “Otras Lenguas” (OLE-6) and an associate professor at the Faculties of Humanities, and Commerce, Tourism, and Social Sciences at the University of Oviedo, Spain. His main research relates to the Irish audiovisual industry and classic Hollywood and British films about Ireland and its diaspora, on which he has published over twenty papers and the volume Irlanda y los irlandeses en el cine popular (1910–1970) (2017). Other interests include Irish and Irish-American history and culture, dubbing, television series, regional television, film criticism, and ESP learning and teaching. His most recent work before the present book is the co-edited (with Raquel Serrano-González) volume Spain, Portugal, and Great Britain: Notes on a Shared History (2021), also published by Peter Lang.
About the book
This book focuses on the most successful feature films of John Carney, namely Once (2006), Begin Again (2013), and Sing Street (2016). Drawing on narrative, formalist, and genre theories of film, it presents an in-depth examination of how the formal and stylistic choices made by Carney allow each film to narrate a story in a coherent way. It shows how aural and visual contrivances are hidden behind a facade of realism, how the films engage with universal, national, and personal concerns, and also how they relate to each other and to Irish and American film in general. It also explores the textual articulation of genre in each and the discrepancies between such articulation, the genre expectations set up by the promotional discourse coming from the publicity materials and events accompanying each release, and the genre labelling of each film in contemporary reviews by professional critics.
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Contents
CHAPTER 2
Once (2006): The Musical That Pretended It Was Not a Musical
CHAPTER 3
Begin Again (2013): The Remake That Pretended It Was Not a Remake
CHAPTER 4
Sing Street (2016): The Coming-of-Ager That Pretended It Was Just a Musical
Figures
Acknowledgements
I am very grateful to Ruth Barton and Tony Tracy for allowing me to do some of the research that ultimately led to this volume, at the Long Room Hub at Trinity College Dublin and the Moore Institute at the National University of Ireland Galway, respectively. Thanks are also due to the staff at these centres for their help with the paperwork, especially Emily Johnson, Caitriona Curtis, Martha Shaughnessy, and Leanne Cox.
I am also indebted to Pilar Villar Argáiz for encouraging me to submit the project to Anthony Mason and Eamon Maher, to whom I would also like to express my appreciation for their valuable comments and suggestions on the manuscript and for considering that it could be a nice addition to the Peter Lang Reimagining Ireland series.
Finally, a special thank you to my parents, my partner Graciela, my friends, and my late mentor and friend José Luis Caramés Lage: I could not have undertaken this journey without you.
Details
- Pages
- XIV, 244
- Year
- 2023
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781803741369
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781803741376
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9781803741352
- DOI
- 10.3726/b20644
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2023 (September)
- Keywords
- Genre, Form, and Style in the Film Musicals of John Carney Carlos Menéndez-Otero John Carney film musicals Irish cinema The Great Pretenders
- Published
- Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Wien, 2023. XIV, 244 pp., 18 fig. b/w.
