TY - BOOK

T1 - Old borders, new technologies

T2 - reframing film and visual culture in contemporary Northern Ireland

AU - Blair, Paula

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - Northern Ireland is now generally regarded to be a post-conflict region since the official end to three decades of violence in 1998. However, given some of the stipulations of the Good Friday Belfast Agreement, including the early release of politically motivated prisoners from jail, society in Northern Ireland remains in a state of flux, uncertainty and disagreement.This book presents four thematic studies revolving around the issues of imprisonment, surveillance, traumatic recall and mythmaking in Northern Ireland. These studies examine the different ways in which artists and filmmakers are experimenting with film aesthetics and new media technologies to represent, re-present and invite engagement with the underlying anxieties that continueto trouble post-Agreement society. In doing so, the author argues for a reassessment of the critical analysis of film’s convergence with other forms of visual art. Ultimately, the volume assesses the usefulness of such an approach in examining how artists and filmmakers experiment with diverse forms that open up space for discussion of the hidden and marginalized concerns in NorthernIreland’s new, ‘shared’ society.

AB - Northern Ireland is now generally regarded to be a post-conflict region since the official end to three decades of violence in 1998. However, given some of the stipulations of the Good Friday Belfast Agreement, including the early release of politically motivated prisoners from jail, society in Northern Ireland remains in a state of flux, uncertainty and disagreement.This book presents four thematic studies revolving around the issues of imprisonment, surveillance, traumatic recall and mythmaking in Northern Ireland. These studies examine the different ways in which artists and filmmakers are experimenting with film aesthetics and new media technologies to represent, re-present and invite engagement with the underlying anxieties that continueto trouble post-Agreement society. In doing so, the author argues for a reassessment of the critical analysis of film’s convergence with other forms of visual art. Ultimately, the volume assesses the usefulness of such an approach in examining how artists and filmmakers experiment with diverse forms that open up space for discussion of the hidden and marginalized concerns in NorthernIreland’s new, ‘shared’ society.

M3 - Book

SN - 9783034309455

BT - Old borders, new technologies

PB - Peter Lang

CY - Oxford

ER -