IrishFilmGenres.com

Irishfilmgenres.com is connected to Professor Brian McIlroy’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council supported project Irish Genres: Cinema and Society 1981-2006. This research program aims to examine through the critical prism of genre theory and criticism the remarkable rise in Irish fiction film production in the last twenty-five years in Ireland, and also the employment of “Irish-ness” in American and British films in the same period. 1981 is chosen as the start date here because it was the birth of the first Irish Film Board, the key instance of concrete Governmental recognition that fiction film was an important cultural sector to be supported and valued. The trajectory of that support ebbing and flowing (the Board was closed in 1987 and reactivated in 1993) is a tale in itself, but the main focus here is on the actual films that were produced in this era, and what they tell us about Irish society as it has evolved.

The impetus behind this research proposal is the narrowness of approaches that have thus far typified Irish cinema criticism and commentary. Arguably, this has resulted in an overemphasis on a small group of serious dramas that directly relate to historical and political crisis points. This research seeks to broaden the canvas and draw attention to the collage of Irish filmmaking. As part of this broadening, the project seeks to give due credit to the many co-productions with Britain and the USA on Irish topics.

To put the spotlight on Ireland is a valuable enterprise within any small nation context. How has a small English-speaking country been able to flourish culturally while flanked on one side by British concerns and on the other by American cultural dominance? What strategies do Irish filmmakers embark upon to counteract or negotiate this cultural position? How does this cultural positioning determine the content and form of the films made? To what extent have Irish filmmakers “gone Hollywood” and to what extent have they succeeded in maintaining cultural difference in the era of globalization? It is clear that these concerns are also relevant to cinema and cultural studies generally, and to public policy in relation to the funding and encouragement of narrative films.

This website contains a searchable database compiled by Jennie Carlsten, whose work has been funded by the SSHRC grant. The database will be an ongoing project. We aim to post articles on the films and the issues surrounding them. We encourage letters to the editor for posting. We encourage additions for the database and commentary on the articles. The 2005 conference schedule is on the website.

A published collection of essays from the conference was published in the Spring of 2007. For a preview of the contents of the published collection, please click here to download a pdf version of the Table of Contents.

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Doubt is a wonderful adaptation of John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer and Tony Award winning drama.The film is an existential quest for truth that enthralls its viewers with the devastating consequences of blind “justice” in the era of ethics and moral conviction.That when doubt succeeds in raising questions in the minds of her audience.
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