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Irish Stereotype in American Cinema - Piotr Szczypa

Irish Stereotype in American Cinema

Stories of Violence

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Buch | Hardcover
278 Seiten
2021
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-46796-5 (ISBN)
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From Levi and Cohen, Irish Comedians (1903) to The Irishman (2019), this book is a fascinating journey through the history of representations of the Irish in American cinema.
Discussing the role of violence in the Irish stereotype, this book is a fascinating story of the changing perception of the Irish in America as told by American cinema. From Levi and Cohen, Irish Comedians (1903) to The Irishman (2019), some of the productions analyzed here are timeless classics; others have almost been forgotten. What they have in common is the presence of violence as the key ingredient in the construction of Irish characters. In his insightful study, Piotr Szczypa employs imagological perspective to investigate the evolution of their portrayal in American films, showing not only how the Irish have adjusted to America but also how America has embraced Irishness.

Piotr Szczypa, PhD 2016 (MCSU), is an Assistant Professor at Maria Curie Skłodowska University (MCSU) in Lublin, Poland. He has published on film studies, new media, and convergence culture.

Acknowledgements



Introduction: Violence and the Irish



1 An Irish Colony Across The Atlantic Ocean

 1The Irish in Colonial America

 2The American War of Independence

 3The Great Famine Period

 4Irish Americans in the 20th Century: Divided We Stand

 5Irish Americans and Irish Nationalism

 6The Second World War: The Irish Fall from Grace

 7The Troubles

 8The Irish in American Popular Culture



2 The Irish on The Silver Screen

 1Irish Film Characters of the Silent Film Era

 2The Classical Period since 1930

  2.1Violent Ways: The Irish as Gangsters

  2.2Against Violence: Irish American Catholic Priests

  2.3Irish Police Officers

  2.4Destroyed by Violence: Irish Boxers

  2.5IRA Films

  2.6The Irish and Union Violence

  2.7Irish American Combatants



3 The Irish in New Hollywood

 1Don Siegel’s Dan Madigan and Harry Callahan

 2Ted Post’s Magnum Force and James Fargo’s The Enforcer

 3Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle: The French Connection

 4Union Violence

 5Gangsters and Boxers: Old and Tired

 6Other Representations of the Irish in New Hollywood



4 Contemporary Hollywood: The Irish as Outlaw Heroes

 1Irish Cops: Labeled as Irish

  1.1The Twilight of Dirty Harry

  1.2The Dawn (and Twilight) of John McClane

  1.3The Irish Killing Machine: Robocop

 2Northern Irish Republicanism

 3Irish Gangs: The Great Return

 4Irish American Vigilantism



5 Contemporary Hollywood: The Irish as Official Heroes

 1Irish American Law Enforcement

 2Firefighters in the Irish American Bildungsroman

 3New Boxers in Irish America

 4Other Violent Characters

 5The Irish Ethnotype in Contemporary American Cinema



Conclusion



Filmography

Works Cited

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Studia Imagologica ; 29
Verlagsort Leiden
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 607 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10 90-04-46796-3 / 9004467963
ISBN-13 978-90-04-46796-5 / 9789004467965
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