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Journal of European Popular Culture - Volume 1, Issue 2, 2010
Volume 1, Issue 2, 2010
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The nation of Irelantis : Ireland as elsewhere
By Jennifer WayAgainst the backdrop of a heritage turn in the humanities enquiring how we use history in response to the needs of the present day, in a collage series called Irelantis, 1994–1999, Dublin-based artist Sean Hillen reused popular tourist postcards to recount anxieties about emigration linking the post-1949 years with the Celtic Tiger period of the mid- to late 1990s in the Republic of Ireland. This article explores the significance of the ways Hillen narrated the Ireland of Irelantis visually by positioning viewers to see it from without and providing evidence of its mobility. The article correlates these features with intellectuals' and members of the Republic's governments' concerns about national sovereignty and agency. As an example, it looks in-depth at the ways a particular collage visually representing central Dublin restages discourses of modernity and tourism in relation to Irish emigration during the post-1949 years. It then briefly considers how another scene outlines complexities of Irish emigration and immigration during the Celtic Tiger period.
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Re-mapping cinema for the twenty-first century: Globalism, borders, and bodies in the films of Lukas Moodysson
More Less‘Re-mapping cinema for the twenty-first century’ looks at the four Swedish-language feature-length fiction films of Director Lukas Moodysson. The article argues for three major points: the assessment of Moodysson's work across thematic readings; the use of Moodysson's production methods and textual messages to challenge questions of national and even regional culture (in this case Swedish, European/western) in an age of transnational digital media; and to analyse these films as an illustration of the role of post-Soviet economic and technological developments in reshaping our understandings of identity, in particular those corresponding to gender and sexuality.
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The Wrestler, an American Rosetta: Marginality, crisis and realism
More LessRosetta from the Dardenne brothers and The Wrestler from Darren Aronofsky, this article analyses how both films use similar unconventional diegetic and cinematographic techniques in order to explore how characters living at the margin of society are trying to reach a state of homeostasis and get out of their state of crisis.]]>
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An American in Europe: US colonialism in The Talented Mr Ripley and Ripley's Game
More LessPlein Soleil/Purple Noon (Renè Clement 1960) and The Talented Mr Ripley (Anthony Minghella 1999), Der amerikanische Freund/The American Friend (Wim Wenders 1977) and Ripley's Game (Liliana Cavani 2004), this article examines the meaning of Europe for Americans and of American popular culture for Europeans. The conclusion is drawn that American attraction to European ‘high culture’ and European desire for American cultural commodities work as a metaphor for American cultural, economic and political colonialism, beginning in the nineteenth century, accelerating after World War II and continuing into the post-Soviet globalized era. Underpinning this argument is the recurrent theme of forgery and stolen identity.]]>
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