| Neil Jordan: Exploring Boundaries Contributor(s): Rockett, Emer (Author), Rockett, Kevin (Author) |
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ISBN: 1904148182 ISBN-13: 9781904148180 Publisher: Liffey Press OUR PRICE: $35.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2003 Annotation: With films like The Crying Game, Interview With a Vampire, Michael Collins, and, most recently. The Good Thief, Neil Jordan is Ireland's most versatile, prolific, and successful film director. The authors argue that central to Jordan's work is an exploration and challenging of boundaries and borders. He creates sumptuous and sensuous worlds of synergy that, thematically and narratively layered, are open to multiple critical interpretations. The authors provide detailed, contextualized readings each of his films, as well as situate them in relation to his literary work. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - Direction & Production - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 791.430 |
| LCCN: 2004296800 |
| Series: Contemporary Irish Writers and Filmmakers |
| Physical Information: 1.03" H x 5.2" W x 8.44" (1.07 lbs) 328 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Ireland |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Neil Jordan is unarguably Ireland's most versatile, prolific and successful film director whose work, both in terms of his fiction writing, and film, has achieved international acclaim and recognition. Indeed, though he lives in Ireland, and through his work often engages with Irish subjects, he addresses at once more universal and more intimate themes such as the interrelation of private sexuality and politics or society, obsession and the nature of desire, and transformation and identity. Though he has worked across many genres, a defining feature has been a refusal of the realist mode. Even in his non-fantasy films, there is a palpable sense of the magical and supernatural. Above all, he creates sumptuous and sensuous worlds of synergy which, thematically and narratively layered, are open to multiple critical interpretations. The book, which is the first extensive study of the director in English, provides contextualised readings of each of his films. |