Course details

Name: ENLT - 250

Title: IRISH FILM: AN INTRODUCTION

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2010

Credits: 3

Description:
This course provides an introduction to Irish film, to Irish culture, and to film analysis. We will view blockbusters such as The Quiet Man, The Commitments, and Butcher Boy and independent films such as Adam and Paul and Once. Students will learn the basic technical vocabulary of film art and study the way American culture, especially American film, influences Irish film in the 1980s and 90s. Students will come to understand how the gendered nation -- Ireland as Dark Rosaleen or Kathleen Ni Houlihan -- features in meaning of these films, determining sometimes the emphasis on rural landscape (The Quiet Man, Into the West) and sometimes the emphasis on the "cottage" and domestic interiors. Looking at gender from another angle, we'll consider "laddism," the wanderings of two men "on a spree," travels usually seen as inimical to domestic stability. At the end of the semester we'll look at the work of Damien O'Donnell, a young Irish director whose short features have won many awards. Papers written on O'Donnell's work will be sent directly to O'Donnell himself (he doesn't grade the papers; he just reads them, out of interest and curiosity). Course requirements include one-page papers on most films viewed, a mid-term, an oral report, a final exam, and a final paper.

Schedule: Tuesday From 2:30 pm To 5:00 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Film)
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Teaching Faculty: McDiarmid Lucy (mcdiarmidl)

Is course canceled: No