Screening modern Irish fiction and drama /

R. Barton Palmer, Marc C. Conner, editors.
Bibliographic Details
Contributors: Palmer, R. Barton, 1946- editor.
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Format: Book
Language:English
Published / Created: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Series:Palgrave studies in adaptation and visual culture
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical description: xv, 266 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

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ISBN:9783319409276
3319409271
Table of Contents:
1.Introduction: Modern Irish Fiction and Drama /R. Barton Palmer and Marc C. Conner
2.Liam O'Flaherty's The Informer and the Aesthetics of Terror /Homer B. Pettey
3.Deconstructing Political Adaptations: Sean O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars /Laurence Raw
4.Genre and Charisma in Shaw's Major Barbara /Doug McFarland
5.Lewin's Wilde: Aestheticism, Moralism, and Hollywood /Edward Adams
6.'Wonderful and Incomparable Beauty': Adapting Period Aesthetic for The Importance of Being Earnest /Jennifer L. Jenkins
7.The Quiet Man: From Story to Film /Michael Patrick Gillespie
8.The British New Wave Screens Ireland: Desmond Davis's The Girl with Green Eyes /R. Barton Palmer
9.John Huston's 'The Dead' (1987) /Coilin Owens
10.Sheridan's Supercrip: Daniel Day-Lewis and the Wonder of My Left Foot /Tiffany Gilbert
11.Roddy Doyle's The Barrytown Trilogy and Filming Ireland's 'New Picture' /Julieann Veronica Ulin
12.Popular Culture in 1960s Provincial Ireland: Neil Jordan's The Butcher Boy /Michael Kissane
13.The Ritual of Memory in Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa /Marc C. Conner.