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Deconstructing the nation : the Abbey Theatre and stage-Irishness on screen, 1930-1960
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Film, 2004)This thesis examines the consequences for representations of the national through national discourses of the increasing artistic and technical collaboration that occurred between the Abbey Theatre and a number of film ... -
Female performances and representation in the Hollywood musical, 1929 - 1940
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Film, 2015)This thesis explores the evolution of female performance paradigms and representation in Hollywood musicals from 1929 to 1940. In particular, it considers how the paradigmatic representation of femininity within the musical ... -
Narrative and ideology in contemporary Hollywood cinema, 1990-1999
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Film, 2004)The main purpose of this thesis is to investigate the relationship between ideology and the narrative structure of popular Hollywood cinema in the 1990s, particularly the manner in which a closed narrative structure serves ... -
Profane love, the heartening story and sublation : the dialectical image in film
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Film, 2015)This thesis develops an understanding of the application of Walter Benjamin’s dialectical image. Benjamin’s theory of the dialectical image is examined through the comparison of avant-garde and realist film productions and ... -
Reel trauma : contemporary screenings of Northern Irish conflict (1996-2005)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Film, 2007)Since the first IRA ceasefire in 1994, construction of discursive memory in Northern Ireland’s cultural spheres has politicised and sanitised historical trauma. This thesis identifies audio-visual culture as being exemplary ... -
The construction of history and childhood in literature and film for children in Ireland, 1990-2003
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Film, 2006)This thesis examines the construction of and relationship between childhood and history in Irish children’s texts. The project takes a multi-disciplinary approach, focussing on the construction of history and of childhood ... -
White Cottage / White House : Irish-American masculinities and spaces of home in Hollywood cinema 1930 - 1960
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Film, 2015)This thesis examines constructions of Irish-American masculinity in classical Hollywood cinema's sound era (1930-1960) across five, chronologically-structured 'modes': James Cagney at Warner Bros; the Catholic priest; ...
