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Subjects:

Men in motion pictures.
Masculinity in motion pictures.
Motion pictures -- Ireland.

Contents:

Introduction
Gender and nation: the Gaelicization of Irish manhood
"Instruments of God's will": masculinity in early Irish film
Institutional boys: adolescent masculinity and coming of age in Ireland's "architecture of containment"
Family guys: detonating the Irish nuclear family
"It's good to talk": language, loquaciousness and silence among Irish cinema's men in crisis
Troubled bodies, troubled minds: republicanism, bromance and "house-training" the "men of violence"
New lads or protest masculinities? underclass, criminal and socially- marginalised men in the films of the 1990s and 2000s
Cool Hibernia: "new men", metrosexuals, Celtic soul and queer fellas
Conclusion: a masculinity of "transcendent" defeat?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230232006
0230232000

OCLC:

796757166