How would you like someone who has read your book to sum it up in one sentence? Irish cinema in the twenty-first century is a clearly written, original, and comprehensive survey of contemporary Irish... READ MORE
How would you like someone who has read your book to sum it up in one sentence? Irish cinema in the twenty-first century is a clearly written, original, and comprehensive survey of contemporary Irish... READ MORE
When I wrote my previous monograph on Irish cinema, Irish National Cinema (Routledge, 2004), I was one of a series of writers trying to tease out just what a national cinema might be. Even then, I... READ MORE
Bang! Bang! You’re…dead, right? Just as ‘once upon’ ends with ‘a time,’ and ‘happily’ precedes ‘ever after,’ ‘Bang! Bang!’ produces... READ MORE
What book in this field has inspired you the most? Richard Slotkin’s three-volume study of the American Western genre, The Fatal Environment, Regeneration through Violence, and Gunfighter Nation, is... READ MORE
What book in this field has inspired you the most? V.F Perkins’ Film as Film (Penguin, 1972). Did your research take you to any unexpected places? Not unexpected as such, but it was exciting to... READ MORE
1. What book in this field has inspired you the most? L’Attrait de la lumière (2010) by Jacques Aumont – small, essential, evocative – desperately needs to be translated into English so... READ MORE
What book in this field has inspired you the most? I was inspired by two authors who have previously written about Clive Barker – Linda Badley and Gary Hoppenstand. Their works on Barker have proven... READ MORE
1. What book in this field has inspired you the most? Hamid Naficy’s An Accented Cinema and Carrie Tarr’s Reframing Difference are two books that inspired me to examine film through a cultural... READ MORE
1.What book in this field has inspired you the most? A tough question! I could name a dozen books off the top of my head which had a significant impact on my project. Perhaps the biggest single... READ MORE
Q and A with Joseph Mai, author of Robert Guédiguian 1. What book in this field has inspired you the most? Three types of books have inspired my work on the filmmaker Robert Guédiguian and the role... READ MORE