1980s independent film
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feature film
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gangster
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genre film
Hollywood
horror
In Dreams
independent film
indie film
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Interview with the Vampire
Ireland
Ireland film
Irish
Irish filmmakers
Irish filmmaking
Irish filmmaking history
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Michael Collins
Mona Lisa
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Neil Jordan analysis
Neil Jordan and genre film
Neil Jordan critical analysis
Neil Jordan critique
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The Butcher Boy
The Company of Wolves
The Crying Game
The End of the Affair
The Good Thief
The Miracle
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Product details
- ISBN 9780252075308
- Weight: 286g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 06 Mar 2008
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Best known for his enormously successful independent film The Crying Game, Irish director Neil Jordan has made sixteen feature films since 1982. Even after achieving commercial success and critical acclaim with such films as Interview with the Vampire and The Butcher Boy, Jordan remains a curiously elusive figure in the era of the celebrity filmmaker. Maria Pramaggiore addresses this conundrum by examining Jordan's distinctive style across a surprisingly broad range of genres and production contexts, including horror and gangster films, Irish-themed movies, and Hollywood remakes.
Despite the striking diversity of Jordan's films, the director consistently returns to gothic themes of loss, violence, and madness. In her sophisticated examination of Mona Lisa,Michael Collins, and The Good Thief, Pramaggiore shows how Jordan presents these dark narratives with a uniquely Irish and postmodern sense of irony. This illuminating analysis of one of the cinema's most important artists will be of keen interest to movie enthusiasts as well as students and scholars of contemporary film.
Despite the striking diversity of Jordan's films, the director consistently returns to gothic themes of loss, violence, and madness. In her sophisticated examination of Mona Lisa,Michael Collins, and The Good Thief, Pramaggiore shows how Jordan presents these dark narratives with a uniquely Irish and postmodern sense of irony. This illuminating analysis of one of the cinema's most important artists will be of keen interest to movie enthusiasts as well as students and scholars of contemporary film.
Maria Pramaggiore is a professor at Maynooth University. She is the author of Irish and African American Cinema: Identifying Others and Performing Identities, 1980-2000 and coauthor (with Tom Wallis) of Film: A Critical Introduction, third edition.
