Men and masculinities in Irish cinema /

Debbie Ging.
Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: Ging, Debbie.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published / Created: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-238) and index.

Physical description: ix, 252 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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ISBN:9780230232006 (hardback)
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Gender and nation: the Gaelicisation of Irish manhood
3. 'Instruments of God's will': Masculinity in early Irish film
4. Institutional boys: Adolescent masculinity and coming of age in Ireland's 'architecture of containment'
5. Family guys: Detonating the Irish nuclear family
6. It's good to talk? language, loquaciousness and silence among Irish cinema's men in crisis
7. Troubled bodies, troubled minds: republicanism, bromance and 'house-training' the 'men of violence'
8. New lads or 'protest masculinities'? Underclass, criminal and socially marginalised men in the films of the 1990s and 2000s
9. Cool Hibernia: 'New men', metrosexuals, Celtic soul and queer fellas
10. Conclusion: a masculinity of 'trancendent' defeat?