Irish cinema in the twenty-first century

Ruth Barton is Associate Professor in Film Studies at Trinity College Dublin. She is the author of several books, including Irish National Cinema and critical biographies of the film star Hedy Lamarr and the silent director Rex Ingram. She appears regularly on radio as a film historian and critic.

‘Irish Cinema in the Twenty-First Century is aimed at an academic readership and, achieving impressive comprehensiveness in a compact package, it deserves to become a standard text on an exciting, still-developing period in Irish culture. There is useful material here on horror, Northern Ireland, animation and the continuing underrepresentation of women. Her decision to begin each chapter with analysis of a short film lends the book a satisfyingly eccentric structure.’Donald Clarke, Irish Times, August 2019'With the relative lack of published literature on the Irish film industry and its product, Barton's book is a most welcome and authoritative discourse on the subject.'Books Ireland'This is a rich, insightful book. It is intellectually rigorous but also written in an accessible, clear and concise manner, and is essential for those with an interest in Irish cinema. It will likely stand alongside Barton’s earlier works as a touchstone of Irish film studies.'NewsFour

• Introduction1 How to make an Irish filmShort film Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty2 Animating IrelandShort film Foxes3 Ireland of the horrorsShort film The Herd4 Documenting IrelandShort film Pentecost5 Irish history and traumaShort film The Shore6 Filming Northern IrelandShort film Six Shooter7 Rural and small-town Ireland on screenShort film New Boy8 images of the cityConclusionIndex