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 language | English |
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Title of host publication | Theorising National Cinema |
Editors | Valentina Vitali, Paul Willemen |
Publisher | British Film Institute |
Pages | 88-99 |
ISBN (Print) | 1-84457-120-3 |
Publication status | Published (in print/issue) - 2006 |
Keywords
- national cinema
- Ireland
- 'third' cinema