National Cinema in Ireland

Martin McLoone

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Abstract

This article maps Irish cinema through Fernando Solanas' grid of 'first', 'second' and 'third' cinemas. In this way, it can be argued that Irish cinema is an 'arriere-garde' cinema that inhabits a contradictory space between the local and the global. Thus indigenous cinema seeking to address contemporary Ireland coexists with a 'first' cinema that continues to reinscribe the myth of romantic rural Ireland, also sold as commodity kitsch.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTheorising National Cinema
EditorsValentina Vitali, Paul Willemen
PublisherBritish Film Institute
Pages88-99
ISBN (Print)1-84457-120-3
Publication statusPublished (in print/issue) - 2006

Keywords

  • national cinema
  • Ireland
  • 'third' cinema

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