Film: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...